Sophie

Matthew and Sophie enjoyed what seemed to be an idyllic childhood existence.

Free from parental restrictions, they played together in the old barn and in the woods and fields around their house, as well as in the disused quarry where they hunted for fossils and where Sophie kept all her secrets.

There were just the two of them, for their mother carried on her own, mysterious life and their baby brother did not live long enough to intrude.

Mattie hero-worshipped his all-knowing elder sister, and believed that their childhood would go on for ever. But Sophie was growing up, and the secret elements in her life would affect her brother in shocking and unforeseen ways as his childish terrors became an all-too dreadful reality. For Mattie, too, had his secrets…