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Ever since a visit to the dentist, Peggy has been hearing the oddest noises reverberating in her head. It's not clanging water pipes, or creaking floorboards from outside, or music, or humming in her own mind. In fact what it really sounds like is Morse code - a rapid staccato of dots and dashes of the sort used by radio operators in the Great War just a few years before. But why would anyone be transmitting Morse code that fast - and through Peggy's head?
Who can Peggy confide in? The only possibility is her young aunt, Stella - a true friend and trusted confidante. But instead of the reassuring response Peggy expects from her aunt, Stella has an uncharacteristically disturbing explanation for the strange sounds.
Could the noise in Peggy's head really be a message from the past, from a world beyond the grave?
A finely wrought picture of a girl's live in 1920s England from Jan Mark, twice winner of the Carnegie Medal.
Jan Mark is a widely respected novelist, short-story writer and reviewer. Her trenchant observations and her ability to be, like her novels, 'deadly serious but funny too' make her a welcome speaker at schools. Her unusual millennium young adult novel, The Eclipse of the Century, was highly acclaimed and shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, as was the surreal and groundbreaking They Do Things Differently There. She has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for Thunder and Lightenings and Handles.
Jan was born in Hertfordshire and grew up in Kent, attending Canterbury College of Art. She taught in a secondary school before becoming a full-time writer and spent a rewarding spell as writer-in-residence with trainee teachers at Oxford Polytechnic. She lives in Oxford with her two cats and their friends, and writes in a book-filled upstairs room.
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