When your family is all you have. Scarred by the deaths of their parents and accusations of murder, Tandy Angel and her siblings start a new life in Paris under the watchful eye of an uncle they hardly know. But they've betrayed you time and again. A born detective, Tandy discovers a locked room in her grandmother's house that holds ugly secrets.
An examination of the hero figure in the stories of two major Victorian authors of children's literature and the complex way in which they engaged with the dominant ideologies of the time.
