A novel about the life of the Freud family’s youngest daughter, Anna. Anna, the ugly duckling of the siblings, Anna the masturbator, the anorexic, the depressive, the homosexual. Yet she was the only one to follow in her illustrious father’s footsteps, joining the Psychoanalytic Society and becoming a child psychoanalyst herself. Exiled to London with her parents to escape the Nazis, she set up a school – one of her homes – a shelter for those left behind by a school system that crushed inventiveness and difference.