Tyger Pool

Rose inhabits a twilight world. Since the death of her mother she’s barely allowed herself to feel, and her father – immersed in a life of tidiness and order – fails completely to reach out to her. Then into her world come, firstly, the eccentric Rocket family with their warmth and laughter and, secondly, the mysterious Aunt Cat, who moves in as a lodger and has about her an aura of malevolence that only Rose recognises. Her life is no longer the same. It is pulled between opposing forces, each equally threatening, and as the struggle becomes clearer, Rose realises that her own battle against annihilation is a battle to save the people she’s close to as well...