Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny jane is too busy to pay any attention to henrietta and the things she sees -- or thinks she sees -- in the shadows of their new home, hope house. All alone, with only sto...Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny jane is too busy to pay any attention to henrietta and the things she sees -- or thinks she sees -- in the shadows of their new home, hope house. All alone, with only stories for company, henry discovers that hope house is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers I 1919.