Abela lives in Tanzania. Her mother and sisters are dying of AIDs. Rosa
lives in Sheffield with her mother -- and she is devastated for another
reason. Her mother announces that she wants to adopt a little girl from
Tanzania, the country that Rosa's father was from.
Abela is shipped to England and forced to live cooped-up in a council
flat. And Rosa is gradually reconciled to the idea of a new child -- but
when Anthony arrives, everyone is surprised! Abela, meanwhile, is in the
kind but hapless hands of social services and, in despair, she runs
away. It seems that Rosa and Abela will never get to be sisters after
all.
"From the Hardcover edition."