Ruby's Spoon

This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between.

The Black Country town of Cradle Cross - home to buttonmakers, canal folk, and more than its share of widows - is bounded by canals, grief and superstition. Caught within this web is motherless thirteen-year-old Ruby, who dreams of escaping the soot and smoke of her home-town for the cl...