Miranda is a gifted novelist who takes you inside the heads of each member of a North London family in the early 1950s. Seen through the eyes of 4-year old Viola — based on Miranda herself – it tells the story of how, due to the fecklessness of her father, the family is forced to move from a large and comfortable house, to a tiny squalid flat in post-war London, while her unhappy mother cannot reconcile herself to these events. It pulls you in and does not let you go.