Life at the Collicutt house is getting very difficult. Katie and Daniel's father is always either angry or sad. He can't seem to stand it when Katie practices for the piano recital that means so much to her, and Daniel is forbidden to act in the school play. What has happened to the dad who "was all the time showing us he loved us"? Will he ever be that way again?About the Author: Budge Wilson Budge is an accomplished and celebrated Nova Scotia writer who has received 21 Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" Awards; Canadian Library Association Young Adult Award; finalist for Governor General's Award (2006); shortlisted for CBA's Libris Children's Author of the Year Award (2009), for CLA's Best Children's Book Award (2009). Budge is also Member of the Order of Canada.