‘I started making sketches of mice because they were the smallest things I could think of to draw. But they generally all start as a sketch or drawing and then take shape as a character is developed around them. Like many writers, I sometimes base my characters on real people (or parts of real people) and sometimes they are the complete product of my imagination. Robin Jarvis writes: ‘Whenever I am asked where I get my ideas for books and characters, I always wish I could come up with some weird and wonderful answer: “I dream them,” for example, or, “I get inspired whenever there’s a full moon.” But, unfortunately, neither of these is true. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent, this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. The Author hereby asserts his moral rights to be identified as the Author of the Work.Īll rights reserved. This edition published in Great Britain in 2012 by Acorn Independent Press Ltd (Oct.First Published in Great Britain in 1989 by Macdonald & Company (Publishers) Ltd
The book ends on a tantalizing and somber note, with major foreshadowing for Ben in the subsequent volumes. In particular to life and enhance the story's somewhat dark, nautical feel. Petersen's full-page half-tone illustrations bring the aufwaders Meanwhile, evil socialite Rowena Cooper also seeks the moonkelp for her own purposes, and is not above committing murder to get it.
("wanderer of the shore") in a cemetery, "eyes as big as his fists and as gray as the stormy sea" he learns how one of these "fisher folk" once married a human and bore a child, which brought about a curse from the Lords of the Deep-and Ben holds the key to finding the "moonkelp" that can overturn it. Jennet learns that Alice and the old ladies of the village are witches who engage in a monthly séance. Ben, who has seen visions of ghosts all his life, has a particularly terrifying night during which the house seems filled with them. Jarvis's (the Deptford Mice trilogy) story of witches and creatures from the sea stars orphans Jennet, 12, and eight-year-old Ben, who are brought to live with their Aunt Alice in the seaside town of Whitby.
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