The Apparition Phase - November Book of the MonthTim and Abi have always been different from their peers. Precociously bright, they spend their evenings in their parents attic discussing the macabre and unexplained, zealously re reading books on folklore, hauntings and the supernatural. In particular, they are obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions and the mix of terror and delight they provoke in their otherwise boring and safe childhoods. But when Tim and Abi decide to fake a photo of a

Then you're told to go to an address in East London where you're to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions

And then there are the scars on his wifes body that she wont talk about

and unforgivably addictive' - LYNETTE NONI

Among their number is Theo Trickey

and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and 'bad apples': the Greens

And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world

Jack finds himself tested as no enemy

the destinies of these magical children unfold

quite literally on her own doorstep

the tic-toc of a pocket watch and countless other sounds merge with the noises of Evie's past: her time in the womb

What that document contains forces him to break cover sooner than he would have wished and to embark on a desperate race south

with a propulsive plot to match