Beauty Cookson is no beauty She's a plain timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident snooty girls at school Worse than the teasing in the playground though is the unpredictable hurtful criticism from her father Beauty & her meek sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules Eventually after an unbearable birthday party & the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper Mum & Beauty run away Finding themselves in a quiet idyllic seaside village their new-found freedom & a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby an income & even a new nickname for Beauty Can they begin a happier sweeter life
- without Dad?A charming page-turning & heart-warming story from this beloved author