The protagonist is Ella, a granddaughter, who wants to find her roots, and seeks out her past and her fondly remembered grandmother, flying from Australia to England to do so. When she finds the house which harbours the links to her past and discovers her magically altered grandmother, she becomes like a dreamer who has to try and match image and dream to a rapidly disappearing reality. Her return to this house of her past catches us out with its familiarity (the novel starts “I have been here before”) and the present tense, first person narrative give the text an overpowering personal immediacy. But Ella soon begins to discover things about her past which don't add up. Hidden secrets about her absent grandmother seem to be increasingly related to the persona of a powerful, glamorous, materialistic sixties media success, the beautiful Lisa Crane, whose past glories are replayed in film and text around the house. Lisa mixed with Warhol, Lisa mixed with the Rolling Stones: a character who succeeded in a world devoted to hype, consumerism, sex and drugs and rock and roll.