Glenda Millard Boeken

The kitchen at the Kingdom of Silk is warm and sweet with the smell of buttery shortbread and steamed plum puddings. And in the kitchen of the Colour Patch Cafe, Scarlet Silk, the eldest of the Rainbow Girls, has made a new friend, Anik. When Anik tells Scarlet about the war in his home far away and of all the things he has lost, Scarlet is determined to make a difference. And so she decides to declare peace on Cameron's Creek, and maybe even the world."

Book two in the award-winning Kingdom of Silk series. A friend like Layla comes along once in a lifetime. Poignant and lovely. Millard has that rare gift of making you feel in a few pages that you've known these characters, and this place, always. -- INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS)

Two young boys, an old tramp, a beautiful lost dancer and her baby - rag-tag survivors of a sudden war - form a fragile family holding together in the remnants of a fun fair. This is a vivid, poetic story about life in the margins and the power of empathy and imagination to triumph over adversity.