The story of the girl before she met the boy who wouldn't grow up.

Come back to the hectic, changing days of the early twentieth century and meet Wendy Darling.

She's a young girl whose imagination is almost too big for her body, who suffers her younger brothers, loves her dog Nana and adores her stuffy parents, so distant though they're only up the stairs.

Despite her cruel nanny's best efforts she still finds life a magical adventure.

Then one night she sees something that turns her life upside down.

Her flash father - he's like a boy who's never grown up - secretly kisses vain, vile Lady Cunningham in the hallway...The image of it haunts Wendy, and beckons her into a dark adult world of mystery and lies - one where her beautiful mother shows herself in an entirely different light.

Pricked by strange secrets and scandals, fantasy and reality become most mixed-up in Wendy's mind.

Driven by her precocious imagination and the clean, clear logic of a child, Wendy sets out on a series of adventures to put right the crimes of the past and the world about her.

Maybe, just maybe, she'll come to believe again that there is such a thing as magic, just out of view. Waiting to waft in through the window and leave its shadow...