Twinter: the first portal: warm rain, red snow – footprints that end in silence

by Veronica Knox

Ghosts, time-travel, a dozen impossible riddles, and a curse of snow Twelve-year-old twins, Kit (a keen boy-scientist) and Bash (a girl with a natural ‘green thumb’ and a flair for elaborate words) are excited to be moving from a noisy city to Bede Hall, their eccentric grandmother’s crumbling stately home, set in the sleepy English countryside. With all that’s gone horribly wrong for a year, moving to a grand old mansion seems a solution that promises an adventure of endless exploration and freedom. Bash can create the garden of her dreams and Kit has an abandoned space to set up his own laboratory. Instead, they stumble upon a portal to the future with three disturbing secrets, begin to untangle the supernatural history of Bede – a village as bizarre as their grandmother’s magic snow globe, and meet some unexpected life-forms who appear to be as haunted as the ghost of Bede Hall – a hapless young girl trapped in the attic’s ‘wintry room’. In order to save the planet, the twins must navigate a maze of time portals to unravel an age-old mystery. The answers lie in Ancient Egypt, but only time will surrender its hidden knowledge, and according to their grandmother’s old hourglass, time is running out. Holding the world in one’s hands is a big responsibility

464 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 3, 2013

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Reviews

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing short story about the lives of three girls who all have a connection to Bede Hall, the stately mansion owned by Beryl who is doing her best to escape from her father, a young girl who lives as a ghost in the hall and who is waiting for her father to return and who befriends Beryl, and a granddaughter Bash who has just lost her father. They live during different times at Bede Hall so there is time travel involved and now as Beryl is an old lady and living in an old people's home away from her beloved Bede Hall, she is being called home to start the biggest adventure of her life! A link which all three also share is that of seeing and feeling visions of Cairo in Egypt and Giza where the Sphinx pyramid is found, they all long to be warmed by the sun in Egypt as they struggle with the curse of snow back home. I really enjoyed this mysterious book and I am sure this is a start to what augers to become a very mysterious and intriguing series!

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing story about the lives of three girls who all have a connection to Bede Hall, the stately mansion owned by Beryl who is doing her best to escape from her father, a young girl who lives as a ghost in the hall and who is waiting for her father to return and who befriends Beryl, and a granddaughter Bash who has just lost her father. They live during different times at Bede Hall so there is time travel involved and now as Beryl is an old lady and living in an old people's home away from her beloved Bede Hall, she is being called home to start the biggest adventure of her life! A link which all three also share is that of seeing and feeling visions of Cairo in Egypt and Giza where the Sphinx pyramid is found, they all long to be warmed by the sun in Egypt as they struggle with the curse of snow back home. I really enjoyed this mysterious book and I am sure this is a start to what augers to become a very mysterious and intriguing series!