Ellie Ferguson is fourteen, has red hair and lives in an Edinburgh tenement with her mother. At five feet eleven inches tall, she towers over her friends Davie and Isadora, and is always having to play gooseberry to Isadora and her boyfriends. When Ellie's mother announces she is going to remarry and move to a bungalow in the suburbs, the whole framework of Ellie's life is threatened, and she retreats into a fantasy world. But fantasy brings disillusion and eventually Ellie has to face reality—a process which is painful but brings its own rewards. For older readers.
