(Paperback)

Alice is a precocious 12-year-old growing up in rural Texas with one wish on her mind - to get rid of Simon Jester. Simon is the man who saved Alice's mother, Meg, from drowning. Simon is Meg's hero - and her new husband. He's a mysterious man whose own family, he says, drowned in a nearby lake.

(Paperback)

The hilarious story of a girl determined to keep up with her ageing, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret past.