Sacred Window

Erika, a girl of nearly nine, lives happily with her widowed mother, of whom she is fiercely protective. When her mother starts to date again Erika feels very threatened. One particularly sad afternoon she makes the shocking discovery that the rockery - built by her and her beloved late father, had changed radically. Astonished, she crosses the stream to investigate, only to land in a world she is unable to escape from until an important ‘work’ had been completed. The problem is - she has no idea what this mysterious task might be... Isabel Hartman teaches music and drama to primary school children. She lives in Queensburgh, South Africa, in a picturesque century-old tin house very much like the one Erika shares with her mother...