Book description
Binny's life has been difficult since her father died and her dreadful
old Aunt Violet disposed of her beloved dog, Max. Her world changed
then, to a city flat with not enough space for her Mum, her big sister
Clem and her small brother James. Definitely no room for a pet. Then one
day Aunt Violet dies, leaving a small cottage in Cornwall to Binny and
her family. Binny finds herself in a new world once more, full of
sunshine and freedom and Gareth, the enemy-next door and the ideal
companion for dangerous dares. But Max is still lost in the past, and
and it seems impossible that she'll ever find him again... 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.
