It is 1971 - hippies, hot pants and extraordinary footwear. Jo is fifteen, and there is something very wrong at home. The house, an architectural oddity built by an eighteenth-century madman, has always had a life of its own but now its sinister goings-on are getting worse. The capable Jo has always coped with her eccentric family but they're getting worse, too - and where are the parents? As the Red House crumbles around them, she and her friend best Frankie are determined to solve the mystery so Jo's family can start an ordinary life. But along comes the devastatingly attractive Florian, folk singer and opportunist, to cause a chaos all his own...

Author Biography

Jane Yardley was brought up in Essex in the 1960s. She has a Ph.D. from a London medical school and works on clinical projects around the globe. Her first novel, Painting Ruby Tuesday (which was written on aeroplanes), was shortlisted for the Pendleton May Guildford Arts First Novel Prize. A Saucerful of Secrets is her third novel.