Dragged off to darkest Cornwall by her grieving mother, Katie is miserable. Not only has she lost her father-now she's lost her home and all her friends too. Her mother thinks she's going to make new friends just like that-she's even got a new friend lined up for Katie already - Zillah. Well, Katie certainly isn't going to like her. Even if she does have a boat of her own. And a diamond ring on a string round her neck. And a deep, dark secret.

 

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Scholastic .

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.