Charlie asks about his father's tie, and Gabriel surprises him by saying his father is lost, not dead. He meets someone else with a gift, Gabriel Silk, who can pick up people's feeling from their clothes. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor's pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred, set against him. The mystery deepens when Charlie tries to return the picture to its rightful owner, a bookseller who gives him a heavy box, saying only that it was once swapped for a child.
Mr Onimous appears, and tell Charlie he must find the baby from the photograph, lost inside Bloor's.
Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone's scary sisters soon find out, and determine to send him to Bloor's Academy. Whilst looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers an extraordinary magical talent - he can hear their voices. What's happening to him? Why now? Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother, in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. He can hear people in photographs talking.
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