A magical middle grade book about family, friendship and finding out who you are, full of emotion and a secret fantasy world to discover.

This place is magic . . . but it's not the sort of magic that comes from wands and spells . . .

Can piecing together the past help you change the present?

Safiya and her mum have never seen eye to eye. She struggles to fit in at school and Safiya often wonders if her mum wishes she was more like her confident best friend Elle. But when her mum becomes ill and falls into a coma, something mysterious happens. Saff finds herself transported back in time to her mother's childhood home in Kuwait. And it becomes clear that this isn't just a magical place: it's a game.

As Saff tries to figures out how to play the game, she realizes that opening her heart to the past is the key to changing the future.

Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Ross Welford, Kiran Millwood-Hargrave and The House with Chicken Legs. From a rising star of children's books.

Aisha Bushby was selected as one of only four previously unpublished authors in the Stripes anthology for BAME writers, A Change is Gonna Come, alongside writers such as Patrice Lawrence, Tanya Byrne and Nikesh Shukla. The anthology was awarded a YA Book Prize Special Achievement Award. A Pocketful of Stars is her debut novel.