Les roses, les choux, et autres secrets

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It is the early 1960s, and 13-year-old Cassandra Fitzpatrick is growing up in a household full of waifs and strays and general misfits. Despite her unorthodox home life, however, she is generally contentuntil something happens to her that turns her life upside-down. Cass unhappiness deepens when she wins a scholarship to boarding school and is torn away from all she knows and lovesespecially her adored, if wildly unconventional, mother. In time, Cass begins to settle down, but accustomed though she is to her mothers eccentricities, even she is not prepared for the announcement Mrs. Fitzpatrick is about to make.