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Revenge of the Toffee Monster
Revenge of the Toffee Monster
Jul 5, 2024 1:29 PM

Author:Susan Gates

Revenge of the Toffee Monster

Lennie finds old Miss Butterworth in the run-down toffee works and is told the dreadful story of Clum, the toffee monster created by old Mr Butterworth in Victorian times. Little does Lennie know that Clum is kept in the freezer until, through a series of mishaps, he finds himself confronted by the 7 foot rampaging toffee fiend. To escape, Lennie must don a lace dress and tam o'shanter and disguise himself as Clum's master, Young Harold. Clum, shining with sparkle bars, looks like a silver knight and walks with the disguised Lennie onto a building site. He is buried by a JCB. Lennie is very sad, but cheers up when he becomes a helper in Miss Butterworth's toffee works. But in the spring, Clum's hand wriggles through the ground ...

Reviews

Debi Gliori's first novel is an unbridled fantasy with elements of the Addams family, a hint of Gormenghast and overtones of the mafia, together with computer technology and some parody, all blended into a heavy brew that is laugh-out-loud funny

—— The Bookseller

It's a gallimaufry of ghastly, giggly stuff

—— Financial Times

Fluent and energetic

—— The Sunday Times

Features one of the most eccentric families in children's fiction . . . A rollicking red, which rapidly draws the reader into its strange and gothic world

—— Waterstones Books Quarterly

Wonderful stuff

—— Daily Telegraph
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