The Truth About Barrett

Eleven-year-old Lee Barrett has never been heard from again since his father sent him to Hazlehurst Orphanage at the age of six. There are frightening rumors circulating in the orphanage: a strange-looking postman will come to take away the alien children who are over 11 years old and go to a strange country called "the other side". Everyone said it was a dangerous place. Dean Martha Gray once told Lee that there might still be traces of her father in that distant land. When the mysterious messenger wearing a long scarlet postman's dress and a tall hat arrived, she bid farewell to the seaside town in England where she had lived for five years, and stepped into that strange but wonderful world.