Jack hadn't wanted to come on holiday at all. He couldn't see how coming to this almost deserted seaside town, with its delapidated beach chalets, was going to change anything. After what happened, it would take more than a holiday to dispel the sadness that engulfed the whole family. And Jack felt so alone, so cut off from the rest of them, desperate to be able to say something that would comfort them. But then he meets Emma, who seems to appear from nowhere, and she helps him realize that with time they can come to terms with the tragedy that has changed their lives forever...especially Jack's...

 

There are 124 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

Sue Welford is the author of many books for children, including THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, and THE NIGHT AFTER TOMORROW, which was the winner of the Angus Book Award. She has two children and lives in Kent with her two Jack Russell terriers.