Reading - The Haunting of Charity Delafield

The Haunting of Charity Delafield by Ian Beck

Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she is NEVER to go outside unsupervised. And she is NEVER to over-excite herself, because of the mysterious 'condition' that she has been told she suffers from. But Charity has a secret of her own. All her life, she has had the same strange dream - a dream of a dark corridor and a locked door, hidden somewhere in the house. One snowy day, Charity stumbles across the corridor. It leads to a door . . . and suddenly she realises things are not quite what they seem, she begins to unravel the strange, magical story of her family's past.