Hector is an 11-year-old boy living near Edinburgh with his great Auntie Robbo who is in her eighties. A woman calling herself his step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo realize that they have to run away. The chase leads all over the north of Scotland, narrowly escaping police and the authorities, adopting three homeless children on the way. Ann Scott-Moncrieff tried to publish Auntie Robbo in 1941, but the book was rejected because deemed to be "too Scottish". Today, Auntie Robbo is revived and reprinted in this beautiful new edition by Scotland Street Press.