What Timmy Did

In the decaying elegance of Old Place, the Tosswill family faces a world narrower than the one they once knew. Their youngest, Timmy, possesses a gift that unsettles his mother and sisters: he sees what others cannot, perceives what lingers just beyond the ordinary. When Godfrey Radmore reappears after years of absence, his phone call cracks open the family's carefully maintained composure. He is coming back to them, and with his return come questions of loyalty, of old wounds never quite healed, of whether affection can survive the erosion of time and circumstance. As Janet Tosswill prepares for the visitor who once meant something different to her household, the novel unfolds the delicate surgery of family secrets. What Timmy sees, what he knows, becomes the quiet engine of dread in this elegant ghost story of the everyday. Belloc Lowndes writes with surgical precision about what haunts not with specters, but with the questions we dare not ask our own lives.