Crying In The Dark — Ann Halam

Bullied and abused by her adoptive family, a holiday on the edge of Dartmoor, in the depths of the country, is just another ordeal for Elinor. But then her aunt forces her to sleep in the dark little room with the four-poster bed, a musty prison of curtains where strange dreams await . . . Elinor retreats into the past; into the tragic life of another Elinor, poor Nell the nurserymaid; and into a three-hundred year old story, at first fascinating, then terrifying. She's trapped in a nightmare, and the price of escape is to terrible to contemplate . . .