The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet

Lillian Velvet is a girl with a secret, one that even she doesn't know but one that will take her on a quest through time and places till the mystery is answered… the latest in Jaclyn Moriarty's magical and enthralling series.

The fifth in the Bronte Mettlestone series, Lillian Velvet lives with her unpleasant grandmother when one day she is given a jar of coins that take her through time and space, providing answers to questions she didn't even know about... what exactly is the secret of Lillian Velvet?Welcome to the world of Lillian Velvet: a very proper girl named Lillian Velvet is living a very lonely life with a nasty grandmother; she's given a jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place…and also to grant a single wish. She comes across a small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay; a family, each member in mortal danger, who are strangers to Lillian (but whom clever readers will recognise...). And a web of dangerous magic is closing tight around all. Who IS this Lillian Velvet? And what on earth is her secret?