Publisher's Synopsis
1917. Unable to join the army, Freddie lives and works in the grounds of the Edenwell Hydropathic. Preferring the company of birds who talk to him, Freddie overhears premonitions of murder, and strikes up a friendship with Eustace, a troublemaker. As the halls of the spa are breached by a strange beast, the boys soon realise that they may be all that stands between this monster and the whole of Edenwell.