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The day Nina's father dies, she discovers an old music manuscript written in his hand and locked away in a desk. Her father was no musical genius, so where did this symphony come from, and what compelled him to keep it hidden? The answer lies in a web of deceit that reaches back forty years. Digging into her family's past, Nina is forced to reconsider her own traumatic childhood, when her father's chronic hypochondria nearly destroyed her family. Nina's sole refuge had been the home of her best friend, whose parents were world champions of ballroom dancing. There she had found relief in the glittering world of Argentinian tango. But as the symphony forces her to confront difficult questions about her past and her father's dark secret, Nina soon begins to wish she had never unlocked that desk.

Painting Ruby Tuesday is a blackly comic, evocative, and charming novel set against the soundtrack of the sixties. It is about a ten-year-old girl who sabotages a murder enquiry, and the effects of the event that she must deal with as an adult.

This novel set in 1970s Essex is about an intelligent, characterful teenage girl who falls painfully in love for the first time and decides that she needs to escape her eccentric, talented but suffocating family.