How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? From Carnegie Medalist
Mal Peet comes an outrageously funny black comedy about an impoverished
literary writer who makes a pact with the devil.
Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has
waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the ruthless Minerva
Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery
blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip--allergic to the faintest trace of
Tolkien--is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish
stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair
turns out to have Faustian consequences. The Murdstone Trilogy is a
richly dark comedy described by one U.K. reviewer as "totally insane in
the best way possible."