Widowed sci-fi writer, Simon Carswell, burdened by guilt from the past, can't understand why his brilliant A A widowed sci-fi writer can't understand why his young granddaughter has taken against him after her mother goes off with her latest lover. Accused of a neighbour's murder, he goes on the run, as does the girl after killing, in self defence, her mother's paedophile boyfriend. Will they meet up... and can the authorities be persuaded of the...