Two children, Ernest and Daisy, manage a rickety hotel in the middle of a bleak moor. They used to run it with their grandmother, but they woke up one morning to discover that she had mysteriously disappeared. So the children take charge. Their main challenge is the guests, why is it that only strange people come to the hotel.

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Octopus Publishing Group .

Philip Reeve's first novel Mortal Engines was published to an incredible critical acclaim which his subsequent books have emulated. He is the author of the Larklight trilogy for Bloomsbury. Philip lives in Devon. David Wyatt, has illustrated many beautiful covers for authors including Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman. He lives in Devon, and is a keen lutist, cyclist, and wanderer of the moors.