Publisher's Synopsis
This story travels back through decades of time, when in 1952, Carrie who is on the brink of death, tells her young Granddaughter Peggy the extraordinary story of her life. With tales of heartbreak, magic, friendships and enemies, which all leads to a life full of self sacrifice, all for the sake of one thing.... The magical grimoire!
Written by her ancestor, passed down to her through the centuries, it is Carrie's duty to protect the powerful book, which in turn leads her to a life full of unhappiness.
London 1890's, Carrie is born to a pauper family scrapping to make enough money to survive, and as a small child has to learn the ways of the dark, dangerous, murky streets of Victorian London. At seven years old her abusive mother dies from alcohol poisoning, the death of her father follows in quick succession, and still only a child, she is left to fend for herself. Befriended by an old traveller woman named Mary, who takes her under her wing, and shows her how to survive, but does she have an ulterior motive?
Find out this and much more in this thrilling, time travelling, supernatural thriller!
