The Night Stairs

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Centuries of tradition are coming to an end at St Cordula’s elite convent boarding school. Deputy Head, Fiona Fox, is about to preside over a controversial move to save it from ruin. But it’s not easy to change things at a school this old. Legend has it that the ghost of fifteenth-century nun, Sister Matilda, will keep St Cordula’s safe. But only as long as the words ‘GOD FORGIVE ME’, scrawled by Matilda on a chapel staircase wall before she fell to her death, are repainted every year. The words have only been allowed to fade once, in 2002. Then, fits of vertigo – ‘the spins’ – spread through the pupils, and a second girl fell to her death on the night stairs. But only three people know the truth of what happened the night of the tragedy. Now the spins are back, and Fiona must stem the outbreak before it threatens St Cordula’s future, or worse, another girl loses her life.

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Twenty-four years ago, a girl died on the night stairs at St Cordula’s Catholic boarding school.

Only three people know what really happened that night. And keeping the secret could prove deadly.

‘I raced through it’ CLARE MACKINTOSH
‘Utterly compulsive’ RUTH WARE
‘Had me hooked from page one’ JENNIE GODFREY
‘Relentlessly gripping’ LUCY CLARKE

St Cordula’s has survived for centuries on tradition, discipline and silence. Now Deputy Head Fiona Fox is preparing to make a controversial change that could save the school from ruin.

But some traditions are dangerous to break.

Legend says St Cordula’s will remain safe as long as the words ‘GOD FORGIVE ME’, scrawled on a chapel wall by a fifteenth-century nun before her death, are preserved.

The last time they faded, in 2002, a mysterious outbreak of vertigo swept through the school.

One girl died.

Fiona knows her death wasn’t an accident.

Now the vertigo is back.

Could unmasking the truth about what happened that night be more dangerous than if it had stayed buried?

**PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE TRAITORS, CLARE MACKINTOSH AND CLARE MCGOWAN**

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Weight 0.664 kg
Dimensions 24.4 × 16.5 × 3.8 cm
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Cover

Hardback

Pages

415

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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