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 FICTION
The House on the Edge
Alex Cotter
• Atmospheric, fast-paced adventure with a spooky twist
• Nosy Crow fiction at its best – thrilling, dramatic, unexpected and with
a poignant message about family, friendship and living with loss
• Hotly anticipated middle-grade debut from an acclaimed YA author
  Age: 9+
Price: £7.99
Word count: 45,000 Format: B-format paperback
Where has Faith’s dad gone? Why has he left his family living in an old house perched on a crumbling cliff top? A crack has appeared in the cliff and Faith watches anxiously as it gets bigger and bigger each day... Her brother is obsessed with the sea ghosts he claims live
in the basement, and when he disappears as well, Faith starts to believe in the ghosts too. Can she find her brother and bring her father back before everything she cares about falls into the pitiless sea below?
• Mystery
• Family secrets • Thriller
 Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at W.H.Smith and publicising
The Booker Prize to copywriting and teaching creative writing. Alex lives near Bath in an ancient house, with cobwebs, creaky floorboards, ghosts, one husband, two children and a revolutionary cat called Trotsky.
  


















































































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