Thornhill

As she unpacks in her new bedroom, Ella is irresistibly drawn to the bigold house that she can see out of her window. Surrounded byovergrown gardens, barbed wire fences and 'keep out' signs, it looksderelict. But that night, a light goes on in one of the windows. And thenext day she sees a girl in the grounds.Ella is hooked. The house has a story to tell. She is sure of it.Enter Thornhill, Institute for Children, and discover the dark secrets thatlie within. But once inside, will you ever leave?

Winner of Best Graphic Novel, British Book Design and Production Awards 2018
Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018

Pam Smy has created a wonderful piece of work in Thornhill. The drawings are full of atmosphere, the words are full of tension and emotion all the more powerful for being so sparingly revealed. This is in one sense a classic English lonely-child-and-garden story, in the tradition of Frances Hodgson Burnett and Philippa Pearce; in another it's a ghost story; in another it pays tribute to the dark-sinister-house genre most famously seen in Hitchcock's Psycho. But it's also a story of friendship and courage and of the power of black-and-white images. I think it's terrific Philip Pullman
A rule breaker . . . an unsettling, deeply memorable read Guardian
Astonishing . . . filmic, atmospheric and suspenseful Sunday Times

Pam Smy studied Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, going on to complete the MA Children's Book Illustration in 2004. She combines her role as lecturer in illustration with illustrating fiction. Pam lives in Cambridge.

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