Zola tries very hard to talk Nonna into meeting their neighbours. ‘Can we go over and say hi?’ Zola asks.

‘I think they like to keep to themselves,’ Nonna Rosa replies, removing a ball of wool from her knitting bag.

Nonna is trying to make a scarf.

Mummy says she should join a knitting group.

Mummy is always trying to find a way for Nonna Rosa to meet new people.

Nonna doesn’t want to hear any of it.

‘I have the St Odo’s community garden group. I don’t need anything else.’

‘But that’s only on Mondays,’ Mummy says. ‘How about you find an activity group for Tuesday?’

Zola gets a great idea.

‘There’s someone next door called Teta,’ Zola tells Nonna Rosa. ‘She can knit. Maybe she can help every time you want to change the colour of the wool.’

Nonna Rosa is not interested.

‘I can do it myself,’ she says.

Zola isn’t too sure of that. Nonna’s knitting is beginning to look very very crooked.

That night, before Zola goes to bed, she places her lantern at the window to signal Alessandro.

Suddenly, there’s a flicker of light in the trees. She peers out to see where the light is coming from. It’s from a room upstairs at number ten.

Could Omar and Bianca have torches? Are they trying to make contact?