While the Others Sleep - Couverture souple

Becker, Tom

 
9781407109534: While the Others Sleep

Synopsis

When Alfie Mandeville's insomnia threatens to embarrass his wealthy family he is sent to Scarbrook House, a sanatorium for wealthy children. Troubled by the eerie atmosphere and skittish patient, Alfie's condition gets worse, not better. He falls under the spell of the charismatic and cruel William Travers, who seems to delight in bullying the other patients. A mysterious sighting by the water tower in the woods stirs up turbulent memories of Alfie's time in India. And as he lies awake one night, Alfie is haunte by visions of a strange creature moving through the darkness at the edge of the patients' beds. Are his tired eyes hallucinating, or is starting to lose his mind? When Alfie learns that the creatures are hunting a demon escaped from the depths of Hell - and that the only protection against them is to be asleep - suddenly insomnia becomes the most dangerous condition of all...WHILE THE OTHERS SLEEP is a gripping psychological thriller - don't read it alone at night!

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Don't read this alone at night! DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE for teens - this is a gripping psychological thriller set in a Victorian saatorium for children Alfie Mandeville doesn't know why he's sent to Scarbrook House, a sanatorium where the children of Victorian Britain's upper class are hidden away. The only thing wrong with him is that he cannot sleep. But Alfie soon begins to doubt his own sanity when disturbing things start to happen at Scarbrook. A sleepwalker is found dead. A funeral is interrupted from beyond the

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