Book description
Ione Muffett is alone in the summerhouse when she meets Ned Hump - a
wacky student who is in love with her professor father's secretary,
Caroline. In a zany and uninhibited twenty-four hours, Ione helps bring
the two together, culminating in a wonderfully anarchic picnic. And as
Ned then helps Ione with her plan to help famine victims by running a
bring and buy sale, Ione's confidence in herself slowly begins to grow .
. .
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's book
world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now
written more than forty books and won virtually every major award
going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread
Children's Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Smarties
Prize and others. The Children's Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also
very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the
family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the
North-East.
'One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human
condition writing today for the young' School Librarian
'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every
major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie
Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There
are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at
work' Scotsman
'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent
