Lindsay Eagar is the highly acclaimed author of three previous middle-grade novels: The Bigfoot Files, Race to the Bottom of the Sea and Hour of the Bees, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Books Prize. She lives in the mountains of Utah with her husband and their two daughters.
This story is brilliant! It is endearing and disquieting, and absolutely worth reading. In many ways it feels like a fantasy Dickensian drama (Oliver Twist-esque)... This book won me over immediately. * ReadPlus *