NIGHT FALL – Novel, by Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken was an English writer, specialising in supernatural fiction and children’s alternative history novels. For The Whispering Mountain, she won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and also an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Fall. The first part of Night Fall, covering Meg’s lonely, ill-treated childhood, and her hasty engagement to a domineering prig, never gets out of the doldrums; once in Penleggen the author’s gift for direful scene and gripping incident takes control. A young English girl travels to Cornwall, to trace the source of the dream, because haunted by a recurrent nightmare. Many years had passed since Meg Frazier last saw the isolated village of Penlaggen and the great, half-ruined mansion that overlooked the sea from the rugged Cornish coast. Meg could not name the reason why she returned now to Penlaggen. Young, beautiful, talented, engaged to a handsome and successful stockbroker, she should have been content to stay in London. But irresistibly Meg was drawn. https://www.amazon.com/Night-Fall-Joan-Aiken/dp/0030897319?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0