Nobody ever went in to the emporium, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents never allowed children in there but Gertrude was going to change that.

Chapter 1

Gertrude stood outside the emporium there was a back door  which she could creep through. She through  the door with a creek, inside it was full of magical magic. She couldn’t understand why no-one ever went in. Gertrude saw that lights were on, her eyes glanced at the sweets, they were in jars lined up on the shelf. It smelt like toffee, she couldn’t understand why people hated the shop so much. The walls were painted a sort of pink but in places it was darkened and on the far side an elephant was climbing up the wall…