The book starts off in a minicab office where Lucas is waiting after going to a friend’s house. He spots an urn on a shelf and starts daydreaming about who is inside. After discovering that it was a famous pianist called Violet Park Lucas is desperate to find out more about her. He gets his Gran, Pansy, to collect her and this leads to a weird array of events.

Lucas's dad went missing when he was young and left his mother to take care of their three children. Not knowing much about his dad he initially idolises him, wearing the clothes he left and thinking that, whatever his mum said about him about abandoning her, he was a cool guy. Clues keep popping up everywhere about Violet and Lucas thinks that she is trying to communicate with him.

After a bit of research and detecting Lucas discovers that his dad knew and worked with Violet. Lucas gets hold of a tape of an interview with the two of them and Violet asks his dad for something unspeakable. Then the tape stops. Is this why his dad left? Is this why Violet Park is in an urn?

There is a reasonably good beginning to this story and it seems well thought through. As the story unfolds the plot gets more and more tangled and intertwined which keeps tension high. There are not many lows in the plot but it feels as if it has been modelled closely on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon. At the beginning the story splits up into many sections and events but Jenny Valentine manages to tie them all up brilliantly in a satisfying and heart-warming way. The book is written I such a way that ordinary family argument and events are amusing. It’s not a side-splittingly funny book but it delivers a smile when needed.

I would give this book 7.5 out of 10 because – good as it is – it isn’t the best.