Leaving home... It's hard for Jess to imagine what it will be like to be separated from friends and family and the place she has always known.

Berlie Doherty is the acclaimed writer for children whose books include 'How Green You Are!', 'Children of Winter'. 'White Peak Farm', and 'Tilly Mint Tales'. Most recently she won the Cranegie Medal for 'Dear Nobody'.

She has captured perfectly the complex interveaving of emotions and experience through three generations of one family.