Seized - Emma Tennant

15-year-old Alice is sent to Corfu for the summer holidays to stay with Cara, a family friend. She finds herself isolated and vulnerable and soon suspects that all is not as it appears. Is she being held a prisoner, and will she discover what really happened to her parents? Emma Tennant perfectly captures the voice of a teenager today in a thrilling mystery which will appeal to adults and young people alike - a "Kidnapped" for our times.

EMMA TENNANT is the author of more than twenty books, including thrillers, comic fantasies, books for children and a series of unconventional and revisionary 'sequels' to classic texts, including Pemberley and An Unequal Marriage (1993-4; reprinted Maia 2005). She was the founding editor of the innovative periodical Bananas, worked as general editor of In Verse and as general editor of the Viking series Lives of Modern Women. She was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. from the University of Aberdeen in 1996, and lives in London.