Book description
It's a scary world out there, especially if you're a pet hamster
who likes nothing better than snuggling into a cashmere sock with a
pouch full of honey seeds. So when Furball escapes her cozy cage and
goes gallivanting with a gang of cockney mice who call themselves the
Mokes, it can only end in trouble. Suddenly this brave little hamster
is dodging fearsome winged Fevvas in the garden, and smelly
long-tailed Narks in the cellar. And she'll have to be very careful
not to be caught out by poisonous Floor Food, lethal Sticky Traps, or
the dreaded Ole Snapper. Meanwhile the Humans, (or 'Ooms', if you're a
Moke) are on the hunt for their beloved pet. And while they're
searching high and low for their beloved pet, they're also dealing
with a serious mouse problem...
A. N. Wilson's children's books have been hugely well received:
'Delightful' - Daily Mail, 'Clever, moving, imaginative' - Daily
Telegraph, 'An excellent book... for the whole family' - Spectator A.
N. Wilson is a distinguished novelist, biographer, critic and Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature. He has won several prestigious awards,
including the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize (for The Sweets of
Pimlico and The Laird of Abbotsford), the 1981 Somerset Maugham Award
(for The Healing Art) and the 1988 Whitbread Award (for the biography
Tolstoy). He has also written a volume of guinea-pig stories called
Hazel, and a tale of an old cat looking back over his life, Stray, both
of which will be published by Corvus in 2012.
