Kat & Emily have grown up without their mother for almost as long as they can remember. & now Dad is with Cassy, & they all muddle along together well enough &8211; even though they are living in a cramped caravan while their new house is being renovated. Then Cassy & Dad tell them that Cassy is pregnant, & everything seems to shift. Emily feels a new urge to find her own mother. How could she have left them the way she did? Never writing to them? Not communicating? & as Emily begins her search, not knowing what she will find, she is at the same time embarking on a new romance of her own&8230; An evocative & finely drawn novel about family relationships, & the shifting emotions of a teenager trying to make sense of her world. &8220; Julia Green is a writer to watch” David Almond