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Eddie's got a problem, someone's eating his friends...
It's 1962 and Mrs Mcgilvery is stalking and eating children in the squalid passageways of the Plough Street slums. Nine-year-old Eddie loses two of his friends to her in quick succession, but adults refuse to believe the children's claims that a child-eating hag is responsible for the savage deaths. To make matters worse, Eddie's vain attempts at defying McGilvery to save his friends have only angered the predator into singling him out to be the victim of a cat-and-mouse terror campaign.
Haunted and desperate, Eddie forges a friendship with Elaine, a girl no older than he but already burdened with the responsibility of looking after her three younger siblings and her feeble-minded grandmother. When Elaine is earmarked as the hag's next victim, Eddie is thrust into a desperate race against time to foil their seemingly invincible enemy and keep Elaine's fragile family together. But Mrs McGilvery's reign of terror threatens to endure in ways that Eddie can't begin to imagine.
The pain and tragic comedy of growing up, friendship in adversity and an insight into the true nature of 'imaginary' friends, 'Mrs McGilvery' is a Gothic tale of suspense, mystery and imagination from the inner city slums of 60's Britain.
It's 1962 and Mrs Mcgilvery is stalking and eating children in the squalid passageways of the Plough Street slums. Nine-year-old Eddie loses two of his friends to her in quick succession, but adults refuse to believe the children's claims that a child-eating hag is responsible for the savage deaths. To make matters worse, Eddie's vain attempts at defying McGilvery to save his friends have only angered the predator into singling him out to be the victim of a cat-and-mouse terror campaign.
Haunted and desperate, Eddie forges a friendship with Elaine, a girl no older than he but already burdened with the responsibility of looking after her three younger siblings and her feeble-minded grandmother. When Elaine is earmarked as the hag's next victim, Eddie is thrust into a desperate race against time to foil their seemingly invincible enemy and keep Elaine's fragile family together. But Mrs McGilvery's reign of terror threatens to endure in ways that Eddie can't begin to imagine.
The pain and tragic comedy of growing up, friendship in adversity and an insight into the true nature of 'imaginary' friends, 'Mrs McGilvery' is a Gothic tale of suspense, mystery and imagination from the inner city slums of 60's Britain.
