The story is split into two. There is the life of Fergus Boggs, from the age of five upwards, and the story of Sabrina, Fergus's daughter, throughout just one day.
When he was small Fergus was given a bag of marbles. He treasured the marbles and played regularly with his brothers. The more he practiced the better be got until he was almost unbeatable.
One morning Sabrina receives a phone call to say that boxes have been delivered to the nursing home where Fergus lives. She goes to pick up the boxes and finds that three of them contain a collection of marbles with an inventory and valuations. The inventory is in Fergus's handwriting. Sabrina did not know that Fergus had ever had an interest in marbles. When she looks through the inventory she finds that the most valuable ones are missing, but there is no indication that they had been sold.
Sabrina starts to ask questions and investigate where the marbles came from and what has happened to those which are missing. During this time she finds out a lot about Fergus that she did not know.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was an interesting concept and showed some very different relationships within one family.
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