Her mother destroyed her. The garden saved her.
Poppy was six years old when she was rescued from her abusive mother
To date, the Reverend Francis Oughterard, vicar of St Botolph's, Molehill, & genteel murderer of parishioner Mrs Elizabeth Fotherington, has eluded arrest. He is nevertheless in the grip of his blackmailing pal, the shady Nicholas Ingaza, who has instructed him to steal a valuable figurine of a prancing pig. Naturally the project backfires, & Francis is once again plunged into further skulduggery, in the course of which another murder is committed. As ever, it is up to his world- weary cat, Maurice, & intrepid mongrel, Bouncer, to conspire & scheme to save his bacon.