Shortlisted for 2010 Times/Chicken House Award
I hope this story will make you laugh and cry - and seriously give you the creeps! The story is about Annie and her older brother, who go to work in the eerie Hexer Hall.
Soon we find that Annie can travel in time - and she ends up in the frightening medieval leper hospital that was once on the site of the hall. Why does Lady Hexer want to get her hands on the medieval doctor's book of cures? How can Annie get the book when it's guarded by the things she fears the most? And what will Annie do when she realises the book is very, very dangerous...
Click to read an extract of The Serpent House on the Times Online Website.
"Both the Victorian present of Annie's diary and the medieval past are strongly evoked."
Times Children's Critic, Amanda Craig
Barry Cunningham, who discovered JK Rowling, describes The Serpent House as "very powerful".
