From the beloved children's author of Hetty Feather, Tracy Beaker and Rose Rivers. Despite her plain appearance, she has always been fiercely intelligent. However, her scholarship and dreams of university are abruptly halted when her father is sent to prison, forcing the fourteen-year-old girl to start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory in order to support her family. She finds it difficult to fit in with her co-workers who perceive her as snobbish and arrogant. Yet, she greatly admires Mrs Roberts, the beautiful and dignified owner of the factory.