Clematis

A girl with no name and no family is found wandering the streets and taken to a children's home, where she waits through the grey months for something, anything, to change. Then summer arrives and she is sent to the countryside, to a house wrapped in clematis vines, where a surprise awaits that will rewrite everything she thought she knew about where she came from and who she might become. This is a quiet, tender story about the ache of not belonging and the startling grace of being found. Cobb writes with an understated emotional precision that rewards patient young readers, building to a revelation that feels both surprising and inevitable. The book captures that particular childhood feeling of standing at the threshold of a mystery your own life holds, unsure whether to step forward.