As Rowena stumbles across the truth about her past, and indeed her future, Gleitzman pulls no punches as he sweeps from the never-quite-dull normality of an extraordinary young girl to the rampaging shenanigans of a typical Gleitzman heroine, culminating in the trip of a lifetime to a small village in France, where Rowena and her long-suffering dad are led towards a life-changing voyage of discovery. Be prepared to laugh out load, and be just as prepared to weep buckets as Gleitzman waves his magic wand in a hilarious, touching and unforgettable book which, quite simply, takes your breath away.