About this book
"The two younger Clavering children discover to their horror that their mother has gone off with another man. They refuse to accept it. Determined to bring their mother home, they leave their lonely London flat and begin their long journey to an unknown part of Italy. Once they arrive, they realize that their task is not the simple one they had thought."
Subjects
Fiction, generalBritishFictionMother and childJuvenile fictionMan-woman relationshipsGeneral