‘Nicholls has written a very entertaining story, with flashes of humour in places’
This book is about a 13-year-old girl called Holly and her little brother Davy who is seven. The story is told in the first person, narrated by Holly, and is set in the present day. They live with their older half-brother, Jonathan, who is their legal guardian because their parents are dead. He works in a cafe, so money is short and their lives are quite hard at the start of the story.
One day the children are told that their great-aunt is in hospital, and when they go to visit her, she gives Holly an album full of photographs of strange places. After she dies, they find out that she’s left them all her jewellery, but unfortunately she was so paranoid her disagreeable husband would steal them that she went through the trouble of burying them like buried treasure. Holly works out that the photos might be clues to where the treasure is buried, and so the children start on a journey across Britain to search for their inheritance.
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