Josephine Pearce takes us on an unforgettable, terrifying journey into the world of childhood. In an English Boarding School of the 1940s, a young boy is bereaved; in trying to help his suffering, a group of his friends unwittingly unleash ghostly forces beyond their control, which target them one by one. A witty and heart-breaking evocation of time and place, Josephine Pearce's new novella adds to her growing reputation as the modern Mistress of the macabre; it is as if the HP in HP Lovecraft stood for Harry Potter.