Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different
- sensitive distracted with an heartstopping tendency to go missing Her mother Beth newly single worries about her daughter's strangeness especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival her worst fear is realised Carmel disappears into the crowd Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good Beth embarks on a mission to find her Meanwhile Carmel begins an extraordinary & terrifying journey of her own But do the real clues to Carmel's disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?