Stephen is desperate to find out what happened to his mother. She disappeared and his father won't tell him the truth. Then Stephen finds his way into a strange world where he doesn't recognize anyone, but everyone seems to know him. Perhaps he can find what he wants to know in this parallel existence. But the truth Stephen discovers is shocking. His mother killed the stepfather that abused her as a child, and is now in prison. Eventually Stephen finds it is possible to like his mother, if not to love her.

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

Catherine Storr was born in London in 1913. She practised medicine for fifteen years, but never forgot her ambition to be a writer. She wrote her first children's books for her three daughters and many became classics. Marianne Dreams was also made into a film, The Paper House, in 1990. She died in 2001.