"Alice is five, old beyond her years and convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family, in a cottage in Herefordshire, are a bit weird. When her mother climbs naked onto the roof with Alice's pet guinea pig in her arms, she's whisked off to the local psychiatric hospital. Keith, Alice's father, is severely tested by his in-laws, whose disturbed behaviour terrifies the community. Alice's one hope, which gives meaning to her life, is Morrissey of The Smiths. She is desperate to see him sing live, but just as Morrissey seems within her grasp her mother contrives to reappear on the scene, dragging behind her a new man ... Can mother and daughter be reconciled? Or is the stage set for more heartbreak than Alice can imagine?"--Publisher description.