White crow by Marcus SedgwickCall Number: Library - Fiction F SED
ISBN: 1444001493
Published: 2010
Two lonely, motherless 16-year-olds meet, one hot summer, in the East Anglian village of Winterfold. Rebecca, miserably dumped by her boyfriend, is with her uncommunicative father, a disgraced policeman awaiting his appeal. She is adopted by another lost soul, the elfin, clever and slightly sinister Ferelith, whose mother has killed herself and whose father has disappeared. Winterfold is another Dunwich. Once a bustling port, it has gradually fallen into the sea: the little that remains is going the same way. Its one, grim, remaining pub is called The Angel and the Devil. Shunning the cheerful beach, the girls explore the spooky church, its eastern end already fallen over the cliff, and the boarded-up Winterfold Hall, the scene of some seriously gruesome experiments in the 1780s, uncovering frightening secrets that would be best left long forgotten.