Every Sunday Ally goes with his parents to visit his shadow-like Auntie Chloe in a mental hospital. Every Sunday Ally gets angry, thinking the visits a total waste of time. Until, one day, he sees the girl who has planted her own name in the mysterious, tangly land on the other side of the lake... Anne Fine, winner of the Smarties Prize for Bill's New Frock and the Guardian Fiction Prize and Carnegie Medal for Goggle Eyes, is much praised for her wit, ingenuity and 'sense of depth under playful surfaces, a light touch which can reveal the poignancy in the happiest relationship'.