Olive is an only child. She lives by the sea in a ramshackle old house with her mother, Mog, successful, busy and hardly ever at home. Olive is very pale and very quiet and she doesn’t quite fit in. But she has a best friend, Mathilda, and that’s what matters.

And then Mathilda decides to be someone else’s best friend.

Just as life really can’t get much worse, Pip shows up. Brash, loud Pip, who is everything that Olive is not, and is about to cause Olive a whole heap of trouble – and open her up to a whole new world of possibilities.



. . . Kane's first novel is original and intelligent, and unexpected from the very first line
Sunday Times

Highly original story about finding the strength to be yourself. The story is at times heartbreaking, but it is told with a warmth and humour that are refreshing and at the same time surprising
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. . . one of the best books in the bundle
Irish Times

A must for any parent or child who knows what it's like to live on the margins
Sunday Tribune

An original and suprising story
Choices Magazine