PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- It's March 1941, and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity have summoned May, Nuala and Eric from their boarding schools to further their other education - that as spies. It isn't long though before the trio find themselves caught up in another mystery that needs their own special blend of talents to solve! There are plenty of appearances in the story of beloved characters from the Murder Most Unladylike series, but the emphasis is on the younger characters, and it is told from Nuala's point of view (rather than May's, as was the case in the first book). Plenty of accurate historical background, with great pacing and lots of action to sweep the reader along! Fans will love it, but because it's told by Nuala, there is also enough explanation and backstory to sweep new readers into the Unladylike world, without boring those already familiar with the set-up. Lindy
Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher. Robin is now a full-time author and the creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, and the brand-new Ministry of Unladylike Activity. She still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in Oxford.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- It's March 1941, and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity have summoned May, Nuala and Eric from their boarding schools to further their other education - that as spies. It isn't long though before the trio find themselves caught up in another mystery that needs their own special blend of talents to solve! There are plenty of appearances in the story of beloved characters from the Murder Most Unladylike series, but the emphasis is on the younger characters, and it is told from Nuala's point of view (rather than May's, as was the case in the first book). Plenty of accurate historical background, with great pacing and lots of action to sweep the reader along! Fans will love it, but because it's told by Nuala, there is also enough explanation and backstory to sweep new readers into the Unladylike world, without boring those already familiar with the set-up. Lindy
