If you know Reading, Berkshire, then read on, and even if you don't read on anyway. This novel encapsulates a special bond between two sisters living in Caversham on the outskirt of Reading. Eventually, the elder sibling comes to see her life as one without the rewards she believes she so richly deserves; maybe her experience of different traumas will now result in something else, possibly something worse. Elsa, the youngest of these sisters, has diabetes. Could her diabetes provide the solution to another problem?