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Summary: When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance



Winner of the Guardian Children's fiction prize



There were reasons why Violet Park should have meant nothing to me. She was old. She was dead. She was in a box on a shelf. But I met her one night, by accident, in the middle of the night and she changed everything.



When sixteen-year-old Lucas Swain rescues Violet Park's ashes from a mini-cab office, he sets out to discover who she was, and finally faces up to the question of his missing father...