PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
How is London girl Molly going to cope in her new home far away on the north coast of Scotland?
When she finds that her detested cousin Max is coming to stay for the summer - and her best friend Suze deserts her – she thinks that life couldn’t get much worse.
Little does Molly know that in no time at all, she is going to find adventure and new friends – but also danger. In the adult world, no-one can hear the Selkie Song – but Molly can and when she finds out that Max also hears it, their adventure begins.
What is the secret of the clock face? What does the sea mist hide? Will she meet the dolphins who live in the bay?
Join Molly and Max as they help solve the mystery of Seal Island.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
"As the car forged its relentless path from the south of England to the
north east of Scotland, Molly’s spirits plummeted further than she’d ever
thought possible. From the first moment
she’d heard Dad’s solution to losing his job in the city, she’d hoped and
prayed that his big idea wouldn’t come off.
Somehow, just somehow, it must surely be that he’d be offered another
job with the bank. After all, for as
long as she could remember, he’d worked in the city. Who on earth had ever heard of a city investment banker working
as an Estate Manager for a remote farming estate on the north coast of
Scotland?
Molly had often woken in
the middle of the night these past six months and pinched herself, sure she was
dreaming; but she wasn’t. OK, so this
was where Dad’s ancestors came from; well his grandparents anyway, but that
didn’t mean that she had a burning desire to find her “roots” as Dad said they
would.
She looked across the
back seat of the car - jumbled and uncomfortable now with all the rubbish the
twins had collected during the long car drive, crisp packets and chocolate bar
wrappers, pages from magazines, empty cans –and for the umpteenth time raised
her eyes to the roof. At eight, they
were only five years younger than Molly but her sister and brother were just
so, so childish – they were playing “I Spy” for probably the millionth time.
Molly caught Dad’s eye in
the rear-view mirror and winced as he winked at her.
“How you doin’ Dolls?” he
noticed her frown “sorry, sorry, I know, it’s Mmmolly?”
He’d always called her
‘Dolls’ for as long as she could remember, but it was only really during the
past few months that it had started to really get on her nerves.
Molly shrugged.
“OK I s’pose” she
answered flatly.
She could see Mum
fidgeting in the front seat and then she turned around and
smiled; it was the kind of smile that only Mum could give – a sort of
combination of pleading and bright, put-on happiness.
“It’ll be OK Molly,
you’ll see. It’s a lovely house and
before long you’ll have forgotten you ever lived anywhere else. Just think of
all that sun, sea and sand and the adventures the three of you can have.”
Molly looked across at
Alix and Sam, who had tired of playing “I Spy”
at long last, and were now involved in a game of
seeing how hard they could push each other without making a sound so that they
wouldn’t annoy Dad. Of course, she
wouldn’t forget. How could she? All her friends, the lovely things they had
in their house in London, her dance classes and of course, last but by no means
least, Shadow the pony she had come to love so much and her riding lessons. Molly felt her heart give a sudden lurch as
she thought of Shadow’s deep brown eyes, fringed with the longest eyelashes
you’d ever seen and felt tears pricking at the back of her eyes. Blinking rapidly, she looked out of the
car’s window and for the first time, saw the sea in the distance."