Ed and his sister Roo are faced with the most boring half-term holiday in history: five days spent in the company of their elderly neighbour Miss Filey, and her ancient, smelly cat.

But when they find a box of birthday candles in a cupboard in Miss Filey's house, their world is changed completely. These are no ordinary candles, every single one of them comes with a wish.

There's only one problem: some of those wishes actually belong to someone else . . .

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Lissa Evans still remembers writing her first joke, aged 7 (it involved a hippo). She never lost her interest in funny lines, and before becoming a novelist, she was a comedy producer for radio and TV. Her children's books have been shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award, the Costa Children's Book Award and twice for the Carnegie Medal. Her books for adults include Crooked Heart, the bestselling Old Baggage, and Their Finest Hour and a Half, which was made into a film ('Their Finest'), starring Bill Nighy.