01726cam a2200301 4500 480162923 TxAuBib 20210302120000.0 210105s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781786485571 HRD 26.99 1786485575 HRD 26.99 TxAuBib Atkins, Lucy. Magpie Lane [BOOK] / Lucy Atkins. 1st ed. London : Quercus, 2021. 354 pages ; 24 cm. When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging--an eerie and ancient house--a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother. But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why is Felicity silent? Roaming Oxford's secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family--and what it is to be denied one. 20210302. Kidnapping Fiction. Nannies Fiction. Missing children Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Oxford (England) Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction.