Frances Gray is on her way to her new job as assistant secretary at the Villa Bianca, an exclusive finishing school near Lugano in the Italian canton of Switzerland. Her work is pleasant and she gets on well with the girls, but there are disturbing undercurrents: a girl has been killed on a trip to Milan and everyone is ordered to forget it, but more accidents follow – too many more. And nightmares, sleepwalking, shadowy figures lurking in the dark, a tragic yet glamorous widow … And what you might have thought was a Young Adult school story has become a tense, nail-biting thriller.
Contains an introduction by Sue Sims.Originally published in 1969