When the inhabitants of Bad Münstereifel celebrate the carnival, a girl from Pia's school disappears and she is soon followed by more girls. Herr Schiller tells the children exciting stories and legends from the area. Pia and Stefan often go to visit an old man called Herr Schiller, a man with a mysterious past containing a serious fallout with his brother. The only one left for her to be with is Stefan, the son of alcoholics who is looked down upon by everyone. Someone else has written about an exploding relative too, maybe John Irving?) This incident soon becomes known in the small town and subsequently, Pia loses her friends in school and becomes the class pariah. In the opening scene, her paternal grandmother explodes when she lights a cigarette after having sprayed her hair with horrendous amounts of hair spray. Pia is also the narrator of the whole story and she tells it like a ten-year-old, all the way through. The main character is ten-year-old Pia Kolvenbach who lives in Bad Münstereifel with her family, a younger brother, a German father and an English mother, who is not always pleased with the fact that she is living in Germany.
Since Puffin is a series for young readers, I believe that this novel would be suitable for teenagers. The novel was published by Penguin, but on the inside of the cover it says: Fiction Puffin loves. In 2001 she and her family moved to Bad Münstereifel in Germany, and it was exploring the legends of this beautiful town that inspired her to write her first novel. She read classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then worked in marketing for ten years.
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