"This comical story is very much in the tradition of Dahl... [and is] humorously illustrated by Arthur Robins." National Association for the Teaching of English on Maisie Morris and the Awful Arkwrights"

Joanna Nadin is an author of children's fiction. Her past jobs include working as a theatre wardrobe assistant, an account manager for a juggling company, a radio journalist, a newsreader and, most recently, a political writer and advisor in government. Joanna, who is the great-great-great-granddaughter of author William Makepeace Thackeray, lives in Bath.