The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room

by Mrs Sarah Wray (Author)

Synopsis

They know. I'm sure of it. And I'm really scared. Who knows what they're capable of? I've got to get away. I've got to escape. It takes just one tragic moment for Jenny's life to change forever. Taken to live at Oak Hall Children's Centre, Jenny begins a very different life, confined to a wheelchair and dreaming of an earlier time filled with love, family and friends. Then Helen and John Holland offer her a foster home with their adorable 5-year-old son, Stephen. The model of a perfect family, Jenny dares to hope that she will at last find some happiness. But when she discovers an old diary beneath a floorboard in her new bedroom, she begins to unravel a horrifying secret. A secret that lies within the padlocked cellar under the house. A secret with mind-blowing consequences. And suddenly Jenny's perfect new life has turned into a deadly nightmare - in which right and wrong no longer exist . . . An intense, frightening and thought-provoking thriller from an exceptional new talent.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 Jan 2007

ISBN 10: 0571230725
ISBN 13: 9780571230723
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: THE WOW FACTOR is a nationwide competition set up by Faber Children's Books and Waterstones to find a new children's author, someone whose work has that magical ingredient that will feed the imagination of the country's children. The competition drew thousands of entries and the judging panel included Fern Britton and Philip Schofield from ITV's This Morning program and children's authors Anna Dale and G. P. Taylor.

Author Bio
Sarah Wray lives in Belfast with her husband and three children. She has a degree in Genetics from Belfast University and has worked as a medical research lab technician, a child-minder, a science teacher and has done voluntary work with disabled children. The Forbidden Room is her first children's novel and it beat thousands of other entries to win the nationwide Wow Factor competition.