Dimity McKee and the Bad Lord Lionel

Orphan Dimity McKee’s contented life of exotic teas, old books and antiquated records is threatened by compulsory social inclusion. But a five-inch lion – the Bad Lord Lionel – offers her new dimensions, not only in his native Leonville, but also in the pair’s confrontation with Otto deFrost, chief priest of the Great Sturgeon, who aims to impose a demented creed on the rest of the universe. In her deepening relationship with the Bad Lord Lionel, Dimity is forced to make adult choices in the otters’ fenland of Waterborne. Dimity’s vividly-realised world is presented with fun, irony, and even a hint of savagery, in a cliff-hanging story which moves at an increasing lick.