![]() ![]() Who were Anne and Melissa, another set of twins, who had had dolls just like Amelia? What had happened to them? And who was Hester and why did she hate them so? All through the long, hot summer, with past and present beginning to melt together, the twins find themselves trying desperately to answer these and other questions, before someone else gets hurt. The strange things didn't stop happening when the family moved into Aunt Alice's house after she too fell down the stairs - and in the same spot as Elizabeth. ![]() And both twins started having odd visions of a time long past, when Amelia wasn't ancient and battered, but new, her face freshly painted. First, Elizabeth fell down the stairs from Aunt Alice's attic - a strange, dark room with a cold, malevolent feeling in it. It was when they brought Amelia to Aunt Alice's house that the weird occurrences started. They named the doll Amelia, an old-fashioned name that seemed to fit her. But the oddest thing of all was when the shopkeeper suddenly changed her mind and sold it to them for the little bit of money they had in their pockets. ![]() And even though it was a ratty old thing in tattered clothes, they just had to hold it for a moment, though the shopkeeper said it wasn't for sale. When twins Jane and Elizabeth saw the doll in the antique shop window, they knew that they had to get a closer look at it. ![]()
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