The children of Canlish Glen are abandoned. They know there is only one way to get their parents and families back, but if they do not succeed by Hogmanay history may repeat itself and all the adults will die. Then the strangers arrive. They come out of nowhere-like the parents went into nowhere-and they are dangerous.. Garry Kilworth's storytelling gifts, so much praised in the Drowners (Commended for the Carnegie Medal), are strongly present in this extraordinary story of good and evil.