Parallel stories set in different times, one told in prose and one in pictures, converge as a girl unravels the mystery of the abandoned Thornhill Institute next door. 2017:.
When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she\'s left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill itself. 1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it\'s shutting its doors.
Parallel stories set in different times, one told in prose and one in pictures, converge as a girl unravels the mystery of the abandoned Thornhill Institute next door