Publisher's Synopsis
New Zealand at the outbreak of World War II is the setting for this novel about the growing pains of an adolescent girl. Overweight and misunderstood, Shona Bracken creates a make-believe world of heroes to ease her loneliness, but a time comes when these fantasies are no longer enough.;Heather Marshall is the author of children's books and the novels "Second-Hand Children", "A Nest of Cuckoos" and "The Secret Diary of a Telephonist".
