Book of the Week. Can feisty Scarlett McCain and seemingly feeble Albert Browne resist, or at least elude, the forces arrayed against them in a future Britain in which London has become a lake and the countryside is with teeming mutant animals and humans, power-obsessed religious authoritarians, and strange men in bowler hats? Stella says that Jonathan Stroud's new book,
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, Being an account of their daring exploits and audacious crimes, is "mesmerisingly good, and Stroud doesn’t miss a beat in laying down some great challenges: climate change, species mutation, psychological manipulation, and power struggles, as well as more endearing qualities of humanity in bravery, loyalty and friendship."
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