The Midnight Child

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A long-ago trauma and a family mystery may shed light on her troubled sleepor pull her into the darkness once and for all...

As a child, Grace Cooper suffered from bouts of sleepwalking. Now, after the unexpected death of her husband, shes moved back to Woodburn Cottage, her childhood homeand the sleepwalking returns. Its all stirring up dark memoriesmemories that involve the disappearance of her brother Simon, who vanished one night when he was a child, and the death of her father, who fell from an upstairs window.

With her mother in a care home with dementia and her sister living in a nearby village, Grace tries to settle inbut with the passage of time, the sleepwalking only becomes more regular and the blurred memories of the past only become more disturbing. Spurred on by these hazy dreamlike recollections, Grace becomes determined to find out what happened to Simon that fateful night. But digging up the past isnt always a good idea, because you never know what skeletons you might unearth...