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The boat house

by Pamela Oldfield

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In 1912, twenty-four-year old Marianne Lefevre is looking forward to her job as a governess caring for twins in the Matlowe household in Henley-on-Thames until she finds that the children's parents are missing, their grandmother, Georgina, spends her time in her missing son's bedroom, and a ghostly figure is reported lurking near the boat house.

Family secretsGovernessesSecrecyNanniesFictionDetective and mystery storiesLarge type booksGeneralFiction, mystery & detective, generalEngland, fiction