Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Three troubled girls, one trouble children’s home.
The Home
What you need to know before your trail
When the body of pregnant, fifteen-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts have seen them cloistered away…
As a police investigation gets underway, the lives of Hope, Lara and Annie are examined, and the staff who work at the home are interviewed, leading to shocking and distressing revelations … and clear evidence that someone is seeking revenge.
A gritty, dark and devastating psychological thriller, The Home is also an emotive drama and a piercing look at the underbelly of society, where children learn what they live … if they are allowed to live at all.
Locations
Reset- England - The Lake District
- A: Langdale Peaks
- B: Mickleden Beck
- C: Tilberthwaite Farm
- D: Lake District National Park
- E: Coniston Water
Travel Guide
Visit The Home BookTrail style in the Lake District
Set in the fictional village of Meddleswater, this is set in the worst children’s home you could ever imagine so no wonder it’s fictional as well!
The only clue really we get to the location of the home is that it’s close to Langdale Pikes as this is the view from one of the windows:
“Laras room as at the front of the house and has a long view of the mountains, all the way over to Langdale Pikes, their jagged grey summits held in this winter’s hard, white, freeze.”
“Her room is right above the office, where only staff are allowed. It holds our records in a big filling cabinet, all the paperwork documenting our whole, messy histories…”
There might be iron doors, locked rooms, private offices only staff can go into, but the children can hear talking through the floors. The children think that they’d done it deliberately so they can listen to them at all times. The children however can also hear them…
The remote and desolate landscape which can be really beautiful and raw hides a building which inside is in complete contrast to its surroundings.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Home
Destination: The Lake District Author/Guide: Sarah Stovell Departure Time: 2000s
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