We all want quiet. We all want beauty. We all need space. Unless we have it, we cannot reach that sense of peace in which whispers of better things come to us gently.

Can krabfoodling pheasants bring laughter to a silent, sorrow-saturated world? And could prickleballing bunnies help mend a broken heart? Aural superpower unleashed, Ella Pearson attempts to unshackle her magpie-personified grief following her dad's untimely death. But will the unexplored undulations of the Washwell Valley cure her anorexic mum? And what becomes of the obsidian-eyed peregrine, the glimmer of hope in her upturned universe?