When the sun shines, you can see a world full of shadows. Look around, the shadows are everywhere. Cats have one and chairs have one. Flags, ice cream cones, and snowmen have them, too. Even clouds and airplanes have shadows.
Tanya is no ordinary girl. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. Evil fairies who cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her out of bed. At wit's end with her daughter's inexplicable behavior, Tanya's mother sends her away to live with her grandmother at Elvesden Manor, a secluded countryside mansion on the outskirts of a peculiar Essex town. There is pl…