Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, Sally?s childhood world was filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God ? their leader was Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. When Sally?s baby brother vanishes from his pram, she becomes suspicious of the activities going on around her. What happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue? And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly go?

Weaving literary classics with a young girl?s coming of age story, this is a book that testifies to the transformative power of reading and the literary imagination. Mixing fairy tale, literary classics, nursery rhymes and folklore, it is the story of a child?s adventure in wonderland and search for truth in an adult world often cast in deep shadow.