Put yourself in Tracy King's shoes. Growing up in an ordinary council estate outside Birmingham; a house filled with creativity, curiosity and love, but marked by her father's alcoholism and her mother's agoraphobia. By the time she turns twelve her father has been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother ensnared by the promises of born-again Christianity. This is a story that could happen to anyone without the tools to transform their circumstances. And it's the story of how Tracy found her way out. It is also a testament to the power of books and to learning to question our world.