Viola the Great A Curious Fairytale

<p><strong>In the kingdom of Dampenia things are-unsurprisingly-damp.</strong></p><p></p><p>The citizens don't complain. Wet is what you get and you don't get upset.</p><p>But then the boggarts move in and eat all the sheep.</p><p>The Merfolk move in and eat all the fish.</p><p>And the locusts move in and eat well everything.</p><p>Mum says Well what can you do? and serves soup without soup. That won't do.</p><p>So thirteen-year-old Viola decides someone should do something. And that someone is her.</p><p>Armed with nothing but unreasonable optimism Viola sets off across a fairytale world gone slightly wrong. She meets hungry locusts obsessed with exercise bureaucratic moles worm-wizards and melancholy elves who lend out rapiers but never smiles. Every kingdom she visits has its own crisis-and every creature she meets is certain that nothing can be done.</p><p>But Viola believes otherwise.</p><p><em>Viola the Great</em> is a witty rain-soaked adventure about quiet courage small decencies and the stubborn hope that even in a soggy world kindness might still grow.</p><p></p>