One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother\'s wedding dress.
Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the toys he makes in his workshop: clockwork roses and puppets that are life-size - and uncannily life-like..
Forced to leave the home of her childhood, she is sent to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie and Finn.
The next morning her world is shattered.
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother\'s wedding dress