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Everlasting Lane

Bullies, harsh teachers, vicious dogs — the pastoral British countryside is a much tougher place than ten-year-old city boy Peter thought it would be. Weirder, too — there are odd shopkeepers in the village, strange hermits living in the woods, and a man known as Scarecrow Man, who stands silently in the fields along Everlasting Lane looking up at the sky.

Peter’s grieving mother has gone strange, too. In the new cottage where, after the death of his father, she’s moved them both from London, she seals off an upstairs room and forbids Peter from ever entering it. Somehow, he senses the locked room represents something that troubles his mother even worse than the death of his father — but what?

It isn’t until he befriends the other school outcasts — the too-smart-for-her-own-good tomboy, Anna-Marie, and overweight Tommie — that Peter begins to think he has a fighting chance of getting by in school. And as the trio of outsiders band together, he begins to think he has a chance of helping his mother, too — by getting his new friends to help him discover the dark secret she is keeping from him...

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 360
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781612193809
  • Genres
  • fiction, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 2015