ASIN: B006X00MPY
Publisher: Mark Eyre
Pages: 656
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose...'What links a religious massacre in the 16th Century, the suicide of a 1930s movie star and the murder of four boys in the summer of 1975?Michael Watson, a teacher nearing the end of his career, believes he has found the answer, a terrifying yet strangely seductive secret that could lead to the fulfilment of all he desires-or something infinitely worse.He lives in Burnfield, a small, obscure town situated in the north of England where nothing of much importance has ever really happened... or if it has no one has taken much notice.The local landowners, the Sinclairs, have resided there for centuries- reclusive, enigmatic, always keeping themselves to themselves, they own a house on the slopes of Burnfield's only memorable landmark, a large hill that looms over the town, a hill that Michael Watson believes to be central to what he has ...
