Cristabel has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. From the day that a whale washes up on the beach at the Chilcombe estate in Dorset, she claims it as her own and is determined to do things differently. She transforms the whale's skeleton into an open-air theatre: this is where she can escape the stifling confines of her home. For lovers of Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles.