Mouse and the Cossacks

Mouse de Bruin is under siege. Without a voice since the age of six, she is trying to work things out about the world.She and her mother have moved into a rented Pennine farmhouse in which reminders of the man who lived there previously, William Crosby, lie all around her. Fighting to hold the outside world at bay, Mouse becomes increasingly drawn to William, a man who seems to have been haunted b...