Kate Angus

In a warren of crumbling buildings, a hospital echoes with the screams of the poor souls within. Inside, there is a woman called Alice. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood…Then one night, she escapes, but the truth she desperately seeks is so much stranger than any madman's ranting. Contains some scenes of violence and of a sexual nature.

When she announces that she is pregnant, 27-year-old Jane Graham is turned out by her father and rents a room in the top of a squalid boarding house in Fulham, feeling this is all she deserves. She is rescued by her neighbours: Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz musician and even her landlady.

Tilly is seven and a half - and about to make history.

When Tilly's dad builds a time machine in the shed there's only one place she really wants to go: back to her sixth birthday party, when she ate too many cupcakes and her mummy was still here.

But then something goes wrong! Tilly's dad gets stuck in the past and only she can save him . . . Will they make it back in time for tea?