The new novel of the unpredictable John Boyne is an amazing and strange story about a mysterious estate in which a young girl alone tries to deal with a series of sinister events. Eliza was born into a decent but impoverished family. After the death of her mother, her father got stuck and soon went after his wife, catching a deadly cold on the way to the performance of Charles Dickens. Eliza was left alone in the whole world and, having stumbled upon a newspaper advertisement for a governess vacancy, decided to change her life - to leave London for the county of Norfolk. In Godlin Hall, Eliza is waiting for two students who dodge any questions about where their parents are and when they will finally appear. Every day Eliza encounters new oddities and as a result realizes that the old house is the home of something mysterious and frightening. And no prudence, no sobriety, allows Eliza to deny the terrible truth about what the nature of this sinister invisible inhabitant . is. Inspired by Charlotte Bront's "Jen Air", Henry James's "Turn of the Screw" and the work of Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, John Boyne wrote a Gothic novel. However, the novel Boyne is not only a literary and plot attraction, the book raises very modern, not at all characteristic of Victorian prose themes.