In his first book for for adults, the children’s author demonstrates a Pratchettian vigour and invention
Like his creator, Philip Murdstone is a prize-winning children’s writer who lives in rural Devon. Let’s assume that’s where the similarities end, for Philip is morose, solitary and poor, and his prize-winning days are, alas, behind him.
His agent – the sexy, rapacious and despairing Minerva Cinch – outlines his predicament: the previous tax year, his five books earned Philip £12,000. Actually, that’s a pretty impressive salary by the Society of Authors’ standards, and one Philip can just about survive on. But, to Minerva, 15% of not much is appallingly little – “You may be perfectly content in your badgery little cottage living on poached mice and hedge fruit, but my tastes run a little richer. Eighteen hundred hardly pays for lunch for a week.”
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His agent – the sexy, rapacious and despairing Minerva Cinch – outlines his predicament: the previous tax year, his five books earned Philip £12,000. Actually, that’s a pretty impressive salary by the Society of Authors’ standards, and one Philip can just about survive on. But, to Minerva, 15% of not much is appallingly little – “You may be perfectly content in your badgery little cottage living on poached mice and hedge fruit, but my tastes run a little richer. Eighteen hundred hardly pays for lunch for a week.”
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