Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction As small children Rudyard Kipling & his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants & running around freely. Their innocent happiness came to an abrupt end when they were sent back to England to live with strangers & forced to conform to the strict rules of Edwardian society in an alien country. Both brother & sister grew up to become writers although one lived in the shadow of the others genius. Rudyard Kiplings incredible life is known to many while his poetry & books have been read by millions a but what became of his talented younger sister? Her story full of love & lies became a distressing family secret that was hidden from the world... Mary Hamer has unearthed the truth about Alice Kipling known to her family affectionately as Trix. In this fictionalised account of their lives the author goes to the heart of the relationship between a difficult brother & his troubled sister & explores how their early lives shaped the very different people they were later to become."