Going Indigo

Back-cover blurb:

"Exiled from his small country town by the tragic combination of a missing father and a mother committed to a mental institution, Oliver, a pale bald-headed twelve-year-old boy, arrives at King's Cross Station accompanied by his cat, Flop. He is dreading his new life with a fortune-telling grandma he has never known. If nothing had prepared Oliver for the stern manners of Grandma Otis's companion, Lena, absolutely no-one had prepared Lena for this wild neglected child and his scrawny cat. Oliver soon discovers that the new people he's living with are possibly crazier than the ones he left behind."

(Please note the author is NOT THE SAME SAM NORTH who wrote books such as "209 Thriller Road".)