Saffron found Indigo almost at once, a smoky dark blue on the bottom row of the chart. Indigo was two years younger than Saffron. His name suited him exactly.

Follow the family's adventures in the rest of the beloved series: Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose and Caddy's World. I'm not doing this right," said Eve, weeping. "There are books on how to do it right. I have read them. You were only three. You looked just like Caddy. You called me Mummy. Full-Name Basis: Tom Levin is the only one allowed to get away with calling Rose her full name, Permanent Rose. Only Rose noticed she was crying. Rose watched her with unsurprised blue eyes, enjoying the sniffs. Saffron was not listening. She looked at the picture of her mother again and said, "Anyway, she's dead."When each of Eve's children was born, she named them after a colour on her beloved artists' paint chart. First, Cadmium Gold – soon simplified to Caddy by her siblings; then, five years later, Saffron came (although she wasn't Eve's child); then another two years and Indigo, the only boy, arrived; then five or six years on arrived Permanent Rose, known simply as Rose. Bill leads everyone to believe that Saffy’s angel does not exist, or if it does then it doesn’t belong to her. Saffron meets the “girl in the wheelchair”, who lives down the road from her called Sarah, the daughter of the headmistress of the local private school. Sarah and Saffron discuss the angel in detail, and Saffy feels happy because, as the author explains, she has never had a “proper friend.” She is reluctant to let her family meet Sarah, because she knows that they will like her and Sarah will become a family friend as opposed to Saffron’s friend: I don't know. He went away that same night. We didn't see him again for ages and ages, and when we did, he was different." I Was Beaten by a Girl: Twice; the first time, Sapphy takes on Indigo's bullies, and they have the sense to not go on further. The second time, Rose thrashes them when she thinks they broke Tom's guitar, and the boys admit even if they saved her life, they deserved that for bullying Indigo. Well," said Eve, sighing as she remembered. "She was in Italy and I was in England. So it was difficult. I was always going to go and visit her, and I never quite did. I wish I had."

Nothing, nothing!" repeated the health visitor, half singing the words, and then in a completely different voice, "Good heavens! What on earth is this?" And, of course, there's Saffron, the Saffy of the title, who isn't on the Casson color chart. Who meets Sarah, the girl next door, and finds out that maybe Eve isn't just messing around painting in the shed.Who is willed a stone angel by her grandfather - a stone angel that is missing. I got into the story for Caddy and Michael, though - all conversations very well-rendered in audio form, "MICHAEL, DARLING!" "Don't call Then for a while Saffron forgot her worries while they all tried to convince the health visitor that none of Caddy's colors were in the least poisonous, and that Rose, except for needing washing, was quite all right. Oh, no," said Eve. "Linda was much cleverer than me! She taught English. In Italy. In Siena. You were born in Siena, that's why I thought it would make such a good name...."

Why doesn't Rose read? Do you agree with Saffy and Sarah that it's important for her to start reading? Are there any similarities between Rose's reading problem and Caddy's difficulty with passing her exams? Everything seemed to change for Saffron after the day she deciphered the color chart and discovered that her name was not there and found out why this was. She never felt the same again. She felt lost. If there is one thing your mother was good at," Bill Casson, the children's father, would say, "it was choosing names for you children!" Saffron makes a call home and talks to her mother. Caddy is still revising to beat Michael's girlfriend, Rose is doing her art and Indigo is conquering more fears of his. Saffron and Sarah try again and again, until on the last day they find Saffron's ex-neighbour. The neighbour tells Saffron that her grandfather took the stone angel away long ago, when he took Saffron. Meanwhile, Caddy takes her driving test. Rose and Indigo decide to look in the Banana House for Saffy's angel.