Rose feels as if she’s been drifting in a strange, numb dream ever since her mother’s death. Suddenly, however, her life is rocked by changes -
for good or ill.

First she hears that Tyger Pool, her place of refuge, with all its memories of her mother, is to be drained to make way for houses.That’s bad enough.

Then she befriends the warm and eccentric Rocket family who provide a new place of refuge in their ramshackle home. That’s pretty good. But then mysterious Aunt Cat moves in as a lodger. And that’s when things start to go really wrong.