The Hollow Girl

HARROWFORD HALL
A safe haven for lost girls? Or a breeding ground for revenge?

It’s 1973 and, after twelve years as a cop, Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith is finally assigned her first homicide case. A woman’s body has been discovered at Harrowford Hall, a home for unmarried mothers deep in the Victorian countryside.

But when Detective Smith arrives at the decidedly creepy home, she finds it all but deserted. What’s more, the home’s overgrown graveyard suggests the apparent poisoning of Nurse Chapman is not Harrowford’s first suspicious death . . .

Led by the formidable Mrs Montague, Harrowford has for decades sold itself as a refuge for ‘fallen girls’ - like fourteen-year-old Jane McEvoy, banished there in 1961 with no idea of how she ended up pregnant. Or like newest resident Marilyn Pollard, who is desperate to escape .

However, what the staff at the home failed to realise is that young girls who’ve been wronged can grow up to be angry women . . .