The Pink House

The final book in a trilogy which includes The Boat in the Bay and The Broken Bell.

The children discover a lost lake in a secret valley, but Poppy has stayed behind to begin her first painting. The decision changes her life for ever as she discovers, too late, the dreadful consequence of their discovery.

Set in the South of France between the wars, the action is seen through the eyes of children confronting an adult world they never quite understand.

A book about the power of art that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. At one level an adventure story, at another, a spellbinding account of a child's first steps in the dark world of art and artists.

“… a powerful and captivating novel. I was compelled to read the second half in a sitting and such are its depths that I already want to read it again. Thoroughly recommended.” – Julian Lovelock, The Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society.