Blacklands Noel Coward Elizabeth enlists Joyce

Elizabeth enlists Joyce

sometime Bow Street Runner

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding

For he has experienced the horrors of World War I and has seen madness at first hand

Blacklands Noel Coward Elizabeth enlists JoyceTwelve year old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front