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The Secret of Nightingale Wood
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The Secret of Nightingale Wood

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  1. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House.

All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world …

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Chicken House Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
6 October 2016
Pages
304
ISBN
9781910655030
  1. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House.

All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world …

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Chicken House Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
6 October 2016
Pages
304
ISBN
9781910655030
 
Book Review

The Secret of Nightingale Wood
by Lucy Strange

by Natalie Platten, Jan 2017

The Secret of Nightingale Wood is a beautiful, immersive read with a spirited and courageous young heroine who drives its narrative. Following a tragic death in her family, 12-year-old Henrietta (or ‘Henry’, as she prefers to be called) finds herself assuming responsibility for her family’s welfare in their time of crisis. Grief tears her family apart, leaving her mother bedridden with despair and her father fleeing abroad to work. The period is post-WWI, and the local doctor, Dr Hardy, takes advantage of the family’s vulnerability. Corrupted by self-interest and narrow, parochial views, he conspires to commit Henry’s mother to a mental institution and to remove Henry’s baby sister, Piglet, so that she can be raised by his wife.

As the crisis builds, Henry seeks solace in Nightingale Wood and there she finds an unlikely ally, Moth, a woman emotionally broken by tragedy of her own and now living a reclusive life. The bond that forms between Henry and Moth gives strength and purpose to them both and together they work miracles to rescue Henry’s family from the edge of ruin. This is a heartbreaking yet brave story, full of hope and wonder.


Natalie Platten