Date of Publication: 1983
Publisher: New English Library
Original cost of hardback first edition: £7.95
International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 0 450 04894 2
Original first print run (where known): Hardback – Unknown – Paperback – 450,000
A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white
who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and
speak, and she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an
ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims.
But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness.
She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries
old. Innocence and evil have become one. Remember with fear…
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