Rubbing to edges and corners bumped. Spine and covers creased.
On a night of wild storms two lonely creatures escape from captivity. One is a boy, Smiler, wrongly convicted of stealing, the other a cheetah, Yarra, leaving the Longleat Wild Life Park, to have her cubs in privacy.
Both are in danger from the outside world and each other, but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain.