"It takes about nine months to start coming to terms with grief. Exactly the same amount of time as it takes for a person to form." "Perhaps there are nine months at each end of a person's life," says Mags. The girl thought for a moment. "Perhaps..." This is Caryl Lewis' ninth novel. It is a novel about the disappearance of a young woman and the effect it has on her family and community. Cara awakens in a different world, a place not unlike earth, and yet completely different. She must spend nine months here, maturing and learning to celebrate and appreciate her life. She is guided by Abel in this new world, to seek a book that will allow her to make contact with earth. Her decisions jeopardise the new world and the boundary between this world and the next...