The Knocking

Paperback

Maggie Holman

Four hundred years after the Great Flood of 1607, Megan Wallace spends the summer in the Forest of Dean, investigating attitudes to the disaster, but as she gets to know the locals and starts her research, her rented cottage begins to give up some Great Flood secrets of its own. What is the reappearing puddle at the front door? Whose footsteps wake her in the night? As Megan searches for answers, the tragedy of the past entwines itself in the present, in a way which Megan will never forget. This supernatural quick read combines the terrible tragedy of the 1607 flood - during which the people thought God was punishing them - with the scientific understanding of the modern world, set against a backdrop of creepy moments which Megan tries hard to understand.