Secrets Of The Shingle

Download or read book Secrets of the Shingle written by Emma Batten and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century draws to a close, Alice arrives at Dungeness to become school teacher at the local school. She is expecting a seaside village with a promenade, sandy beaches and, at the very least, pavements. Instead, she finds herself on a desolate, windswept, shingle headland unlike any place she has ever been. All too soon, she stumbles upon a dying woman and is haunted by her inability to help her. Not knowing who to trust and trapped within the inhospitable landscape, Alice is determined to find out who the woman was and what had happened to her