The Humming Room
Hiding is Roo Fanshaw's special skill. Living in a frighteningly
unstable family, she often needs to disappear at a moment's notice. When her parents are murdered, it's her special hiding place under the
trailer that saves her life.
As it turns out, Roo, much to her
surprise, has a wealthy if eccentric uncle, who has agreed to take her
into his home on Cough Rock Island. Once a tuberculosis sanitarium for
children of the rich, the strange house is teeming with ghost stories
and secrets. Roo doesn't believe in ghosts or fairy stories, but what
are those eerie noises she keeps hearing? And who is that strange wild
boy who lives on the river? People are lying to her, and Roo becomes
determined to find the truth.
Despite the best efforts of her uncle's assistants, Roo discovers the house's hidden room - a garden with a tragic secret.
Inspired by The Secret Garden, this tale full of unusual characters and mysterious secrets is a story that only Ellen Potter could write.