Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps lie in wait for women. She loves her job and enjoys her clever spirited children. Her house is filled with frie... » 

Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps lie in wait for women. She loves her job and enjoys her clever spirited children. Her house is filled with friends and her husband Dan the New Man is an acknowledged paragon. At her thirtyseventh birthday party Alice could be forgiven for thinking that their family life has been a pretty succesful production so far. But love is treacheroud and children never quite what they seem. Two months later alone on a desperate quest through the bleak lanes of Norfolk Alice cannot see how her life could ever be rebuilt. It takes a child an old woman and the eccentric glory of a Victorian funfair to bring Alice and Daniel safe home from their long cold separate journeys. «