Don't read this alone at night! DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE for teens - this is a gripping psychological thriller set in a Victorian sanatorium for children Alfie Mandeville doesn't know why he's sent to Scarbrook House, a sanatorium where the children of Victorian Britain's upper class are hidden away. The only thing wrong with him is that he cannot sleep. But Alfie soon begins to doubt his own sanity when disturbing things start to happen at Scarbrook. A sleepwalker is found dead. A funeral is interrupted from beyond the grave. And worst of all, creatures are stalking the dorms at night, looking for a demon patient to drag back to hell, consuming anything that stands in their way. The only protection is to be asleep, and suddenly insomnia is the most dangerous condition of all. Alfie must find the demon patient if he is to have any chance of making it out of Scarbrook alive. Only when he does, he will discover the true reason for his residency at Scarbrook - and it is anything but a simple case of not being able to sleep.

 

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Scholastic .

Tom Becker grew up in a market town in the northwest of England dreaming of becoming a writer. He won the 2007 Waterstones Children's Book Prize with his first novel, Darkside, and continued to blur the lines between history and fantasy in books such as The Traitors and While The Others Sleep. To date his books have been translated into over ten languages. He has also published a play, Until The Last Light Fades, and an adult novel, The Cold Tap, under his real name, Tom Beckerlegge. Tom lives in London with his wife, baby son, and a horde of shadowy creatures that he keeps confined within the pages of his notebook.