Something unusual happened before he was born ……

Louis is a rat, outwardly unexceptional and looking very much like any other of his kind. But something had happened to his mother and when he was born it very soon became clear that he was unlike all the other rats in the shadowy underground world of tunnels and sewers that were his home. Louis had one very special talent that he had yet to discover, and was entirely reliant on his mother to guide and protect him because he couldn’t understand the squeaks and chirrups with which all the other rats communicated.

It was not until one horrible night when disaster struck and he was cast out into the world above that his hidden talent came to his rescue and he met Alice, and his life changed forever.