For ten-year-old Christine, home is a hostile place. Then, on a family holiday in Scotland, something terrible happens and, panic-stricken, Christine and her br... » 

For ten-year-old Christine, home is a hostile place. Then, on a family holiday in Scotland, something terrible happens and, panic-stricken, Christine and her brother run away and hide in the back of a stranger's car. And a troubled little girl becomes a lonely spinster's salvation. «