Description

Ed and his sister Roo are faced with the most boring half-term holiday in history: five days spent in the company of their elderly neighbour Miss Filey, and her ancient, smelly cat.

But when they find a box of birthday candles in a cupboard in Miss Filey’s house, their world is changed completely. These are no ordinary candles, every single one of them comes with a wish.

There’s only one problem: some of those wishes actually belong to someone else . . .

Publisher Review

'If Joan Aiken (on a skateboard) with E Nesbit chipping in, wrote the story of a young Stephen Hawking, extra heroes and a cat, and Arthur Ransome advised, and Frank Cottrell-Boyce put in jokes, you might get a book like this. But it seems Lissa Evans did it all by herself . . . Very wise, very magic, very, very funny' HILARY MCKAY ----- 'It seems that Lissa Evans only writes instant classics . . . she's one of the funniest writers for any age' ANTHONY MCGOWAN ----- 'Beautiful and very funny' JENNY MCLACHLAN