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A haunting and original modern fable from one of the UK's most loved and admired writers for children.

About the Author

Gene Kemp has established herself as one of the most inventive and imaginative of British children's writers. She is best-known for her Cricklepit School stories, including The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, a winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Rights Award, Charlie Lewis Plays for Time, which was runner-up for the Whitbread Award in 1985, and Just Ferret, which was a runner-up for the Smarties Award in 1990.