The key in the lock / Beth Underdown.
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TextPublisher: [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 279 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241503317; 9780241503300Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction | Parental grief -- Fiction | Sons -- Death -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Arson -- Fiction | Manors -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- FictionGenre/Form: Gothic fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: "I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unravelling from an upper window, and the terrace bathed in a hectic orange light . . . Now I see that the decision I made at Polneath was the only decision of my life. Everything marred in that one dark minute." By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy - one whose death decades ago haunts her still. For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: the fire at the Great House, and the terrible events that came after. A truth she must uncover, if she is ever to be free. But once you open a door to the past, can you ever truly close it again?
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"I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unravelling from an upper window, and the terrace bathed in a hectic orange light . . . Now I see that the decision I made at Polneath was the only decision of my life. Everything marred in that one dark minute." By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy - one whose death decades ago haunts her still. For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: the fire at the Great House, and the terrible events that came after. A truth she must uncover, if she is ever to be free. But once you open a door to the past, can you ever truly close it again?
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