Carrie has had to get used to quite a lot recently: her father has a new job which often keeps him away from home for days on end, her mother took a full-time job to augment the family income, and the family is obliged to move in with the wheel-chair-bound grandmother whom Carrie never liked anyway. True, Carrie can stay at the same school despite the move and carry on her friendship with Kathy whom she has known since they were both babies, but the friendship has cooled down recently since Carrie is bored with maths and sport, doesn't like music, and refuses to continue going to ballet classes with her friend. But most of all, Carrie hates the house she has moved into with her family. It belongs to her grandmother, it is old and musty and has a desolate, winter-grey garden, but the worst thing is that Carrie sees things there that do not really exist. When she comes home at dusk she sees a girl standing at the attic window dressed in old-fashioned white clothes …