Alice

Ever since Alice Thatcher discovered an old picture of her father, whose name is forbidden in the house, she has been desperate to purge her thoughts of him. But although she wants nothing to do with him, each day Alice finds herself frantically scanning her face in front of the mirror for any possible traces of her lost and forgotten father.
Soon, the only spark of light in her life is her eccentric best friend, Maddie, who leads her to a secluded private garden, which soon becomes known to the girls as 'the forest'. Here, Alice finds refuge from the problems she faces at home in a world created by imagination.