Thirteen-year-old Cassy lives with her grandmother until a mysterious late-night visitor sends her to stay with her free-spirited mother Goldie in a London squat. As she helps produce an educational wolf play with the resident troupe of actors, Cassy cannot shake the feeling that something is stalking her. Little Red Riding Hood haunts her dreams recast through her own fears. Eventually she learns the secret that has been kept from her all her life: her father is a notorious IRA terrorist. Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal, this gripping thriller interweaves wolf symbolism with themes of fractured family, identity, and the search for truth.

Wolves never desert their families — so why did her father leave?