Review
-"School Librarian"
"A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions."
-"Independent"
Book Description
Product Description
Harry is in trouble. He's burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who's heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island.
Harry doesn't expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to.
He certainly didn't expect to discover all the beards.
Or the angel on the mountain.
Or the helicopters circling overhead all week.
And he definitely didn't think it would be so wet . . .
From the Back Cover
'Glerhus Dill Sotblug!'
Harry's burned down the kitchen (by mistake) and blackmailed Uncle Tristram into taking him along on holiday to a strange island: home to the bewitching Morning Glory, a host of bearded oddballs, only one tree - and nothing else but trouble.
The ferry man did warn them, 'Glerhus Dill Sotblug!' But what on earth did it MEAN?
And will they end up Eating Things on Sticks...?
A hilarious tale from multi award-winning author Anne Fine.
About the Author
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book world since her first book was published in the mid 1970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children's Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children's Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave.She lives in the North-East.
'One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young' School Librarian
'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work' Scotsman
'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent
