The Dreadful Kindness Of Mr. Crowe

In the isolated marsh village of Ashworth-on-Mire, silence is never empty. It listens. It waits. And twelve-year-old Iris Warwick knows when something is wrong long before anyone else dares to admit it.

Iris has always seen what others cannot - truths hidden beneath polite smiles, whispers clinging to the fog, and shadows moving where no shadows should be. The villagers call her strange. Her brother Robert is angry at a world that took their father. Her mother Margaret is still living in the...