As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood near her home, little does she think she will encounter a world where loyalty and independence is fiercely guarded, and where danger lurks in the most unlikely of places.

Celandine's troubled character finds both refuge and purpose among the secret tribes of little people that she alone believes in.

She also meets a nurse who upon Celandine's departure from their company exclaims “Do you know that extraordinary looking girl?” She returns to her home farm but does not enter not wishing for an angry confrontation with her father.

A small child Celandine calls Fin appears out of nowhere and jumps her; smothering her with love and affection, begging for cake.

The plant figures in all three volumes of the trilogy, but it is not clear from the descriptions which of the two Steve Augarde has in mind.