Book description
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.
Kim Kane was born in London in a bed bequeathed by Wordsworth for
'. . . a writer, a dancer or a poet'. Despite this auspicious
beginning, she went on to practise law.
In 2004, Kim threw her unbridled materialism to the wind and started
to write. Kim now works exactly part-time as a lawyer and exactly
part-time as a writer and the combination is perfect.
Kim has noticed that most proper children's writers like chickens.
Kim hates chickens. She does, however, like being backstage, her
nephew, Angus, and, if she is strictly honest, most fatty snacks.
Above all of these (except perhaps Angus), Kim likes telling stories,
and on a good writing day she wouldn't trade her life for anything.
