The Cellar, Paperback/Minette Walters

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From the internationally bestselling crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British house. On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songoli s younger son fails to come home from school, fourteen-year-old Muna s fortunes change for the better. Until then, her bedroom was a windowless cellar, her activities confined to cooking and cleaning. Over the years, she had grown used to being abused by the Songoli familyto being a slave. As Scotland Yard swarms the Songoli home following the boy s disappearance, Muna is given a real bedroom, real clothing, and treated, at least nominally, as a daughter. But her world remains confined. She is not allowed to go outside, doesn t know how to read or write, and cannot speak English. At least that s what the Songolis believe. Before long, it becomes clear that young Muna is far clevererand her plans far more terrifyingthan the Songolis, or anyone else, could ever imagine."