Meet the Vaughan family: Mamma, Dadda, Davy, his five sisters and baby brother Owen. They live in a small house in a Welsh Valley before the First World War.

This charming book chronicles some of their adventures: Bessie’s hunger strike for the latest fashion; Owen’s sudden and mysterious disappearance; Davy’s trip to the colliery to see the pit ponies. Find out what happens at the school’s grand Open Day. Will little Margaret Mary remember her ’recipation’? And who does steal a bloater?