Dark secrets continue as the story begun in The Black Book of Secrets and continued in The Bone Magicianmoves
on in all its Gothic glory. Determined to track down the man who
swindled his butterfly collecting father, Hector sets out to find the
villain with a glass eye. Out for revenge, he travels from the
disgusting city of Urbs Umida to Withypitts Hall, a place full of
sinister secrets and deadly deeds. Hector needs all his cunning to
survive the evil that surrounds him. Can he do it…?
When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a fiendish villain with a glass eye. The trail leads to Withypitts Hall, a forbidding Gothic mansion as warped as its inhabitants and their secret schemes. Soon Hector finds himself embroiled in mysterious deeds more poisonous than his worst imaginings, but every twist and turn brings him closer to his revenge...
F E (Fiona) Higgins is a first time author, who has been described as “a rising star†of children’s literature, and mum of a four-year-old daughter Before becoming a full-time writer, she trained as a teacher and taught in Primary Schools in London until the year 2000; other jobs including starting a home Internet business followed. Fiona had a number of shorter stories published and produced several full-length books which didn’t get published. Her first book, “The Black Book of Secrets†has been published to great acclaim and has been nominated for the prestigious Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize.
