Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Met together in a garden fair, Put in a basket bound with skin -If you answer this riddle you'll never...
Gerald Noone has spent his childhood in a succession of foster-families and children's homes. But just after his fourteenth birthday, he receives a summons from his dead mother's wealthy family and goes to live with them in their beautiful Elizabethan house, Owlcote.
Once there he discovers he is heir to an ancient curse which overshadows all the Noones the curse which started with an Elizabethan tragedy and which is built into the very fabric of the house. Using the ancient riddle and the secret of the forbidden Night Maze, Gerard and his cousin Harriet have to learn how to lift the curse before it can continue to poison further generations...
Annie Dalton's first novel, OUT OF THE ORDINARY, was highly acclaimed

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