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1975, 2000s: The secrets within a cold, dark asylum for children…
The Lost Children
What you need to know before your trail
The Moore Asylum was the home to all those forgotten and lost children of Brooklyn Bay However, a scandal forced its closure, and the building abandoned. The building still casts shadows on the landscape in more ways than one. When the body of a man is found dead, strapped to a gurney, it seems as if the building has still got a few evil secrets to spill..
Detective Lucy Harwin finds herself on the trail of a killer ruthlessly fixated on avenging wrongs. What disturbing secrets lie within the asylum’s walls? Together with her partner Detective Mattie Jackson, Lucy begins to unearth its terrible history, and the horrors endured by the vulnerable children.
But the past looks set to come back to avenge the present…..
Travel Guide
Brookyln Bay (Fictional seaside town in UK)
The Moore Asylum is obviously and luckily fictional. It’s a very gothic and scary place and when seen through the eyes of a child, even more so:
“There were fields which were nice, and there was a cemetery for the partners who had died here. That wasn’t so nice. It was scary: there were rows and rows of simple wooden drosses, each one marking someone’s grave. On each cross was a number, and Lizzy had asked one of the nicer nurses what the numbers meant She’d replied that they were the patients’ hospital numbers , so they knew who each one one. Lizzy had wanted to ask her why they didn’t just put the patients’ names on instead, but had been too scared.
It closed in the seventies following a patient abuse scandal as as the estate agents come round to take a look , even they wonder who would want to buy this place. The place is a wreck and the windows boarded up but it’s what lies within that really chills the hairs on the back of your neck. Even Brookyln Bay , the seaside town where the asylum is located, used to be a thriving town but is now a shadow of its former self and is little more than a ghost town.
For interests of the map, Barrow in furness where the author lives is “Brookyln Bay’ Of course this has no links to anything in the story in real life, but is where the author did her research.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Lost Children
Author/Guide: Helen Phifer Destination: Cumbria “Brookyln Bay” (fictional)
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