The Night Stairs Category_POETRY Chana Rosenzweig arrives in Vienna

Chana Rosenzweig arrives in Vienna seeking not only protection for her and her family

his head transformed into that of an ass

family read-alouds

each tale offers a vivid sense of place without feeling like a lesson

a quick visit with her best friend

The Night Stairs Category_POETRY Chana Rosenzweig arrives in ViennaThe Night Stairs by Erin Kelly is a gothic psychological thriller set inside an elite convent boarding school, where faith, fear and reputation sit side by side. When a string of schoolgirls begin fainting without warning at St Cordulas, Deputy Head Fiona Fox is already under pressure to modernise the crumbling institutionand the timing feels anything but random. A long guarded legend clings to the chapel staircase: a fifteenth century nuns warning,