The kite has been unloved for fifteen years. Octavia had not wanted it; and when Caitlin's mum buys it at a car boot sale, Jack doesn't want it either. But Caitlin does. Caitlin has been in and out of hospital for two years and now she is too weak to walk. She understands the kite's sadness. Someday she hopes to fly the kite from the top of a mountain, and she learns all about mountains in hopeful preparation. One hot summer evening the kite flies with Caitlin, soaring over the tops of the world's mountains to the 'Great Mountain of light where happiness ever after waits for Caitlin and the kite'. Beautiful in both word and picture.