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1880: Amy Osbourne’s parents are lost at sea. She is forced to leave London and is sent to Allardyce House in Scotland
The Missing Girls of Alardyce House
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Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne’s parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at the opposite end of the country.
Alardyce House is depressing and dreary, her aunt haughty and cruel. Amy strikes up a friendship with her cousin Edward but his older brother Henry is just as conceited as his mother, and a mutual loathing develops between him and Amy.
As her weeks of mourning pass, the realisation begins to dawn on Amy that her aunt has designs on her inheritance and the candidate she favours to be her neice’s husband fills Amy with horror. Struggling in this strange, unwelcoming environment, Amy begins to suspect that something isn’t right at Alardyce House.
There are rumours below stairs of a monster on the loose, local women are being brutally attacked and her cousin Henry is the prime suspect. Alardyce House is full of dark secrets and Amy isn’t sure who she can trust…
Travel Guide
Edinburgh and Alardyce House
The house of course is fictional but there are several houses in the area that you could visit and imagine you are in Alardyce House. Well, perhaps not exactly as it’s a spooky kind of place:
Alardyce House is depressing and dreary, Amy’s aunt haughty and cruel….
” A turn in the drive brought them around the tree line and finally Alardyce House had nowhere left to hide. It was revealed to her in all its dreary, depressing glory. The hous was learge and – from what she’d already gathered – filled with all the modern comforts but it was just a square grey box. She was put in mind of a prison and shuddered.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Missing Girls of Alardyce House
Destination/Location: Edinburgh Author: Heather Atkinson Departure:1880s
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