And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.

The plot is described thus: "“A young boy in New York City Theo Decker miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Knopf 1992.  60-66.

She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003.