A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list - all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves - even the ones who are not yet born. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics - and their enemies. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. (The link with Holly is that he seduces her at a Swiss ski. Summary: Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. There's an embryonic Oxbridge novel that sees precocious, amoral Hugo Lamb describe his predatory life as a Cambridge undergraduate.
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