It's not easy being an eleven-year-old pacifist, especially when your Dad's in the Army. Adam is bullied at school, and just wants a quiet life. But he gets more than he bargained for when his artist mother drags him and his younger sister to stay in an old house near the New Forest for the summer holidays - and it has no TV, and no Internet! Just a huge garden, some injured animals - and lots of very old trees. Adam is quickly drawn into a world...