The Pure Heart

Author: Tweedie, Trudi

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Published on 6 February 2020 by Chicken House Ltd.

Paperback | 288 pages
130 x 197 x 19 | 216g

A stunning classic horror story - perfect for fans of

Mary Shelley!

'[A] wonderful twisted gothic novel ... [an] evocation of

a weird and wonderful world with compulsive characters and a cracking

mystery at it's core.' THE TIMES

'Oozing atmosphere, this reads like a teenage version of recent

gothic fantasies like The Binding or The Familiars:

deliciously chilling Elizabethan tale with an injection

of horror.' THE OBSERVER

'[An] atmospheric gothic chiller' THE INDEPENDENT

When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter's

companion, she's transported from her humble island home to

a grand house in the Scottish borderlands.

Why has she been summoned here? And will she ever make it back

home?

A stunningly atmospheric YA Elizabethan horror set in

the Scottish borderlands, written with a unique and original voice.

Jane Eyre meets Susan Hill with a YA twist and gently

fantastical elements.

Winner of the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction

Competition 2018; the first YA entry to win.