The last place Angela wants to be on her 14th birthday is on holiday with her Dad and his new family in the New Forest. When a pony-trekking expedition organised by her step-mother ends in a humiliating fall from her horse, Angela decides enough is enough and strides off alone into the forest. Soon she is lost; but this is the only the beginning of Angela's adventures in a world that first terrifies, then intrigues and fascinates her, and takes her on a journey that will change her life.