Viola hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he find...Viola hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is irrevocably changed.