ISBN Clifftoppers: The Thorn Island Adventure book Paperback 176 pages

While sailing their boat around the coast, Chloe sees a terrified face at a window and the cousins realise there's something rotten about nearby Applestone Hall. Could the face belong to recently kidnapped young George, the only child of a rich local businessman? Certain that the villains are hiding out nearby, the cousins must use all their skills and cunning to conduct a daring rescue.

Born in Chobham and raised outside Winchester, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. She spent her smallest years reading Tintin and Batman, and searching for King Alfred's treasure. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur works with her husband, a toymaker, looks after other people's gardens and tries to grow vegetables.