'This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.' It's Christmas
time in the Stanton family house: presents, carol singing, good cheer. But for e
leven-year-old Will Stanton something sinister has begun, inching round his subc
onscious, shouting silent warnings he can't decipher. Then on Midwinter Day Will
wakes up to a different world - silent, covered in snow and ancient forest, a w
orld of another time.