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1963. Maggie’s stutter makes going to school unbearable. Nobody understands her, and her only friends are her pets. In a last attempt to ‘cure’ her, Maggie’s parents send her to freezing Cornwall to stay with her grandfather, a doctor, whom she hardly knows. Here, she stumbles upon an abandoned young snow leopard in the woods, a discarded gift to a wealthy Londoner – too wild to domesticate. But once the cub’s presence is discovered by others, danger follows …
