They are drawn to the suspiciously inexpensive Cliff End, feared amongst locals as a place of disturbance and ill omen. Gradually, the Fitzgeralds learn of the mysterious deaths of Mary Meredith and another strange young woman. Together, they must unravel the mystery of Cliff End's uncanny past - and keep the troubled young Stella, who was raised in the house as a baby, from returning to the nursery where something waits to tuck her in at night... The second in Tramp's Recovered Voices series, this strange, bone-chilling story was first published in 1942, and was adapted for the screen as one of Hollywood's most successful ghost stories, The Uninvited, in 1944.

    This is a story of strong women and weak men, of an abiding love that breaks taboos, and dare not be declared. It is a novel in which the family is spellbound by the secrets of its past.The Angela du Maurier name has appeared on the finest, most popular novels of gothic romance and menace of our time. In this novel, she has written a superb novel of love and fear, where explores this territory with candour and sensitivity all her own. From its innocent beginning to its violent and shocking close, her narrative grip is sure."A sure blend of romance, tragedy and macabre emotion. Written to the hilt in the best of the Wuthering Heights school, TREVERYAN carves the theme of a great family suffering under the doom of a secret curse..." - Springfield Repbulican