Eve has grown up in a decidedly unconventional family, one of seven multi-racial children with different fathers and a mother who raises them her own way. It is a family without men, a family of children whose various talents are always at odds with the rest of society.When Eve is eight, her mother Victory calls upon her own special, rarely used talent, second sight, "the ability to harness chance". This rare gift brings Victory forebodings of disaster, but it also wins her first prize in a cereal-box competition. Suddenly the rag-tag family is leaving its trailer home and moving into a brand-new house in a leafy London suburb: The Cornflake House. The consternation among residents at their arrival has comic, then disastrous, consequences.

Now Eve is a young woman in prison. How she got there, and how her amazing mother planned long ago to get her out, makes for a dramatic and utterly original novel of family and magic.