Other People's Children

For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father, in his peaceful flat in Bath, where he realises that he doesn't actually hate the idea of a stepmother But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur ...