A gripping tale of real life and story-lives - and of the importance of being free to be yourself. From one of today’s top children’s authors, multi-awardwinning Anne Fine.

'I adore stories in which people have weird dreams, and strange things happen. But that's in books...' Mel is the class bookworm. She prefers books to people and doesn't want to be first-week minder for new girl, Imogen. But there's something very strange about Imogen and, as Mel slowly uncovers the truth, she begins to realize that stories can happen in real life, too. And only she can stop Imogen's private horror story - stop the bad dreams...