She reached up to turn the brass door handle of the second-class carriage, and felt that this time she would suceed, that the sunshine train would take her away from all that was hateful and bring her safely home, at last, to her friends.

The year is 1915, Britain is at war, and life for Celandine has become unbearable.
Bullied at boarding school, where she is accused of being a witch, and haunted by the loss of her brother, Celandine runs away to a place known only to her: the secret world of the little people.
But her existence among the Various is no less dangerous than the one she left behind, for the little people are also at war, and Celandine is in the line of fire...