Throughout the book It is very rainy and gloomy, at some point the sun is out but it's rainy most of the book.Her house is also just a big house divided into flats.There is also a dead garden behind all of the flats.The house isn't very exciting, as the setting is described it sounds old.
The world is really the same as the other but more exciting and fun!In her new bedroom her toys come to life.The garden is also way more vibrant than before! Eventually throughout the story the house starts to look lifeless and fake,Possibly because the Other mother is changing.