Abigail is a maidservant in Greave Hall, an elegant London household governed by the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs Cotton. Whilst the widowed master slips slowly into madness, Mrs Cotton gradually usurps the position of gentlewoman of the house.

General Information

ISBN : 9781408804506
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date : 01 August 2010
Produced in : United Kingdom
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Michael Ford
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Dewey classification : 823.92
Pages : 288

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Promotion info

Page-turning ghostly thriller set in Victorian London From the talented and effortlessly adaptable author behind the Spartan Warrior series and numerous books in the 1.5 million copy selling Beast Quest series Michael Ford weaves a mystery worthy of Wilkie Collins, with enough chills to rival The Woman in Black and a deadly secret at its core

Reviews

Praise for The Poisoned House: 'Jim Carrington has succeeded in building a very real and malicious psychological bully ... An interesting plot-driven story and certainly a book to raise issues' Bookfest

Author description

Michael Ford read English and Classics at Oxford University. He worked in children's non-fiction publishing for several years before becoming an editor of adult fiction in west London.