So, we have Alice and her mother Ella living a fairly transient lifestyle.  They seem to constantly run in to bad luck. Things catch fire, or strange things happen, and Alice even gets kidnapped once.  Ella’s mother, Althea, is an author of a book, Tales from the Hinterland.  It’s a book of dark fairy tales that is no longer published, but has a fanatical cult following.  It’s also a book that Alice has never read, despite her efforts to find a copy. One day they […]