The Sixteenth Station

About this book

Catriona Docherty is seventeen, dyslexic, and stacking shelves in a Glasgow pound shop a year after she lost the only job she ever wanted: unpaid apprentice to the Keeper of the Subway Lost Property Office. In Cat's Glasgow nothing lost underground is truly lost, and a phantom train brings it all to an oak Counter that will return an object only to someone who can speak the last true thing its owner thought. Alasdair Baird could hear those sentences. So can Cat. When his own cap arrives on the Counter, eleven months after he was found dead at the foot of the Kelvinbridge stairs, she must go back, with a lie of her own that has been rotting in her all year.