The house of whispersRome, 1938. As the world teeters on the brink of war, talented pianist Eva Valenti enters the house of widower Dante Cavallera to become his new wife. On the outside, the forces of fascism are accelerating, but in her new home, Eva fears that something else is at work, whispering in the walls and leaving mysterious marks on Dante's young daughter. Soon she starts to wonder whether the house itself is trying to give up the secrets of its mysterious

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Hayley Mills' teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest coming-of-age family movies: Pollyanna

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and landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor on campus

Emperor penguins have the most extraordinary lifecycle

A volume of literary extracts providing a concise insight into various Welsh locations - their stories

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and bucking outdated traditions

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He is the author of two previous novels

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