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Despite what you might think, learning the techniques necessary to induce out-of-body experiences is not difficult. It’s as natural as singing and dancing and is nothing more than a mental knack that can be learned by just about anyone.

Poachy the squirrel lives near the top of the tallest tree in Amelia Riley Gardens, a lush green space in the middle of a big city, surrounded by huge, white Georgian houses, which make up Victoria Square. The park is big for an inner city square at about the size of two standard football fields laid end to end. A grand duck pond built on two levels dominates its center. It has its own footbridge separating the small shallow part where frogs, tadpoles, and newts live, from the deeper, much larger part, for bigger fish.

After spending six weeks in the hospital recovering from a car accident, Charlotte Pearce is surprised when an Aunt she barely knows arrives to collect her. Her Father's been taken ill in France and her Mother has flown out to stay with him until he’s fit enough to return home. Meanwhile, Charlotte must go stay with her Aunt in her crumbling ruin of a house deep in the countryside. Aunt Sarah has enough problems of her own as Charlotte’s young cousin Nick has mysteriously fallen from his bedroom window three days earlier and now lies comatose in a local hospital.

Cathy Matthews suffers a run of bad luck culminating in a 300-foot tumble down a French mountain while on holiday. After spending time in a hospital and an agonizing six months nursing her smashed legs, she is finally well enough to leave the confines of the family home one afternoon to cover a story for her local college newspaper, the proposed redevelopment of Becmead Wood. The area is a local beauty spot and a magical place where she spent lots of time as a little girl.

Four cats are left locked and abandoned in a small London apartment to die by their uncaring owners. Without food and water, things look bleak, until one of them remembers a kind old lady she lived with as a kitten many years earlier. Assuming she's still alive, the aging felines face a 50-mile journey to salvation and what they all realize is their last hope. Escaping the apartment is only the tiny first step in a long, arduous journey that will change all of their lives forever.

Michael Dixon relocates to the small town of Ashcott with his mother after his police officer Father’s murder in London two years earlier. The small house, nothing special to start with, is turning into something of a building site thanks to his Mother’s new love Gary. Gary is the worst plumber in the history of the building trade and seems incapable of sticking to a plan. Wherever he goes, chaos, destruction and irate customers follow. Depressed with the situation and as lonely as ever, Michael is at least blessed with the same sharp analytical brain as his Father.