Book description
It's December, and Robin, his friend Dan, and Sun Dance are laid low
with chickenpox. To keep them amused, Robin's mother entertains them
with memories of the summer when she was eleven and Nick and Charley
stayed at her house. When they met Harriet, a strange, shabbily dressed
girl who seemed full of surprises and magic, but remained a mystery,
until Sun Dance solves the riddle with a small amber cat . . . Hilary
McKay won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her first novel,
The Exiles
. Her subsequent work has achieved recognition: The Exiles at Home
won the Smarties Prize, whilst Saffy's Angel
, the first in the Casson Family series, won the Whitbread Award, for
which the third book, Permanent Rose
, was also shortlisted.
