Lydia

By Lou Yardley

Do you remember summers from your childhood? Did the summer holidays seem to last for an eternity? Was it always sunny? Did you laugh and play with your friends for hours on end? 
Lydia’s childhood summers were a lot like that. Every year, her parents would take her to a beautiful lake house where they would all relax, watch dragonflies and Lydia could see her best friend Alice. Lydia loved those summers. She never wanted them to end. 
But one fateful night changed everything; ruining it completely. 
A combination of disappearances, bloodied hammers, terrifying dreams and grisly deaths will change Lydia's summers, and her life, forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lou Yardley
• Release date: May 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524265090

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Acknowledgements

Although I wrote the words, I couldn’t have done it without these awesome people:

Mark – for putting up with me and looking after me.

Mum – for being the BEST MUM IN THE WORLD.

Suzbum – for being my brilliant lil sis... and a ‘fluffywoo’!

Laura and Karen – for reading this for me, spotting my mistakes (they were put there deliberately, honest!) and for your advice in regards to plot and style. I may not always listen to it, but I appreciate it!

My cats (Cecil, Tigger, Gizmo, Tilly, Angel, Pinky and Brain) – for being SO FLUFFY!!!!

CHAPTER 1

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Just like clockwork, every summer Lydia's parents would take her to the lake house. It was a beautiful place, small and homely, but still a real sun trap. It smelt like summer. It looked like summer. If you asked a child to draw a picture of summer, there was a big chance that they would draw the lake house, complete with a smiling yellow sunshine in the top corner of the page. The food there even tasted like summer. The family liked to have their meals