In a future time before the end of the world, an old man is puzzled when his meager provisions begin to disappear and when the thief turns out to be a young girl.
- ISBN10 0370310128
- ISBN13 9780370310121
- Publish Date 18 September 1986 (first published 1 January 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Bodley Head Children's Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 166
- Language English