A Review By Keith Smith

This is a book to be read easily in one sitting. And it will certainly reward you for doing so. It is set in and around Coventry ( Warwick Castle even gets featured ), but reveals a side of city life we do not know much about…the put-upon immigrant. In essence it is a coming-of-age novel, but it is unique in so many ways. I particularly found intriguing the way it is formulated like an extended ode. In some circumstances such wilful trickery by the author would annoy….here it seems somehow entirely appropriate…we are after all being taken to other worlds.

Life is lonely for Kasienka, the main character. At home her mother’s heart is breaking as she continues to sand at school friends are scarce. But when someone special swims into her life, Kasienka learns that there might be more than one way for her to stay afloat.