Caterpillar Hall

While her father was abroad, life for Penelope, who lived in London with her uncle and her governess, was a little dull. But when she was sent some money with which to buy herself a very special present, everything changed and became almost magically exciting.

The present led her first to a new acquaintance who lived in an extraordinary house, and then, back through time and space, to the childhood of her grown-up friends. In each one she discovered that there was something they had always been looking for and which they had never found.

How she managed to obtain this one thing for each of the, and with what surprising results, is the story of this book.