
'Mummy, why don't I have any grandmas or grandads?' is surely a natural question for a little girl who hears her school friends talking constantly about outings with and presents received from loving grandparents.
But when her innocent question is met by evasive answers,...

In High Time, eight year old Ruth Reid has a major preoccupation in her life, summed up by the question she keeps asking her mother, and which her mother never answers: