Molly Drayton has learnt the consequences of telling tales the hard way. Once she told a story to a teacher, and her life was never the same again. When Molly moves in with the kindly but perverse Mr Roberts, her imaginative yarns start to transform his life, and the lives of everyone else she meets. But it's only when Molly meets the mysterious Tim on the Seize the Day bench in the park that she really starts to flourish. The tales of make-believe she weaves with Tim become more and more fanciful and as Molly falls deeper in love, she risks losing her fragile grasp on reality. But then almost everyone in this small town turns out to be living some kind of fantasy life. Sarah Salway's witty, finely tuned and poignant story of many stories is an entrancing chronicle of a very different coming-of-age.