"A brilliant collection of tales based on Edith Wharton's Kerfol ... Noyes cleverly adds her own style and twists ... Mesmerizing." Booklist (starred review) In her 1916 ghost story, Kerfol, Edith Wharton tells of Anne de Barrigan, a young woman convicted of murdering her jealous husband. The elderly lord was found on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs - no live dogs - at Kerfol that day. In these remarkable intertwining stories, Deborah Noyes returns to the manor to tell de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales slip forward in time, following characters haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol - the dead dogs; the sensual, uneasy relationships; and the bitter taste of revenge.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 14+ years.

This book was published 2013 by Walker Books Ltd .

Deborah Noyes is an editor and author living near Boston, USA. She is the writer of Hana in the Time of Tulips (9780744557923), a picture book about tulipomania in seventeenth-century Holland.