Book description
It's winter in Paris and Madeleine is having problems at school. A new
girl, Mirabelle, is bullying her. Madeleine is too ashamed to ask for
help from her friends, Madame Pamplemousse and Camembert, but she's
befriended by a woman called Madame Bonbon, who runs an alluring-looking
sweet shop. The sweets Madame Bonbon gives Madeleine have the most
bewitching effect, at first making her feel much stronger and able to
confront Mirabelle. But soon they start drawing her into a strange,
enchanted world from which she finds she cannot escape. For Madame
Bonbon is really someone else in disguise - an old enemy from Madame
Pamplemousse's past who has come to Paris seeking her revenge . . .
Rupert Kingfisher's first two books,
Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles
and Madame Pamplemousse and the Time-Travelling Café
, were highly acclaimed. His favourite authors as a child were Roald
Dahl, Susan Cooper and Ursula le Guin. He also loved American horror
comics and French cartoon books such as Asterix
and Tintin
. It was on a family holiday to Paris that he discovered Tintin
- and also ate anchovies for the first time. He says that both
experiences were equally life changing.
Rupert studied Philosophy at Bristol University and Play Writing at the
Central School of Speech and Drama. Rupert has had plays performed in
Dublin, Edinburgh, London and on BBC Radio 4. He grew up in Oxfordshire
and now lives in Brentford, Middlesex.
