Book description
In 'Allie/Alma', Alma is a very good girl who volunteers with the
elderly in her free time. Allie is her wicked alter ego. While Alma
courteously tends to her companions' needs, Allie is scheming to steal
their precious heirlooms and artefacts. So it happens one day that
Allie is so overcome by greed for a particular carved egg that she
forgets to listen to its tragic history, unaware that she will be the
next chapter in it.
In 'Bridgey', our eponymous heroine is trapped as her uncle's slave,
doing household chores from dawn until dusk with only a duck named
Rafferty and a mysterious water monster called the Grimblett as her
friends. One day, when Bridgey accidentally drops her uncle's
treasured honey pot in the lake he flies into a rage and it is left to
Rafferty and Grimblett to exact a harsh final punishment on him.
Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were
previously published in the collection Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.
Brian Jacques was born and bred in Liverpool, where he lives today.
At the age of fifteen he went to sea and travelled the world. He has
worked as a stand-up comedian and playwright and now hosts his own
programme,
Jakestown
, on Radio Merseyside. His bestselling
Redwall
books have captured readers all over the world and won universal
praise.
