ABOUT
THE BOOK

It is late December and fifteen year old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced street in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police who have come to the house to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing shoes in a department store in town.
Caris’s father Mac, a taxi driver, struggles to keep the family together as Christmas looks set for disaster, especially when Louise’s drunken, dishevelled mother moves in. While he finds solace talking to his passengers, Caris is drawn into the intriguing darkness of the nearby vale where she meets George, an unpredictable boy from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world.