"You are right, " said Morag quietly. She looked at Digby. "Find it, you young ones," she said. The old lady leaned forward and took his hand into her frail old one. She looked into his eyes. "Let the room call its own again.... Find it," she said, "and you will have found..." Digby was already nodding. "Yes, Eve's treasure," he said.
Penny and Justin have gone, but the promise they made in the Night of the Medlar has not been forgotten. In The Last Chance, Book One of The Owl, the Two and the Medlar, their younger cousins, Digby and John, are in dire straits, and the old medlar has become dangerously cantankerous. In Book Two, The Keeper Sleeps, evil is again abroad and the room once more calls its own. The old house and wild orchard are threatened, the medlar itself destroyed. Or is it?
Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
