Kate Saunders

What if there exists a world powered by imagination? A world of silliness, where humans and their toys live on long after they've left the Hard World . . . and what if the door between that world and this one was broken? Welcome to the Land of Neverendings.

Mrs Laetitia Rodd, the impoverished widow of an Archdeacon, living modestly in Hampstead, is also a private detective of the utmost discretion. In winter 1850, Sir James Calderstone, a wealthy industrialist, asks Mrs Rodd to investigate the background of an 'unsuitable' woman his son intends to marry – a match he is determined to prevent. In the guise of governess, she soon discovers that the Calderstones have more to hide than most...