The Mudlarkers: Message in a Bottle

by Emma Carroll

Meet Sailor, Moses, Wader and Shrimp. A gang of four Victorian children condemned to searching through the sludge under Putney Bridge for anything they can sell to make ends meet ... the Mudlarkers!

In each book the river throws up a new treasure... and with treasures come adventures...

Wader has found a letter in a bottle, washed up on the riverbank. The note is mysterious and confusing and it's followed by another one the very next day.

Who is sending them? Why is Wader the only one who can read them? And what is this magic that he's being warned of, about to befall the river?

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

After years of teaching English to secondary school students, Emma now writes full time. She graduated with distinction from Bath Spa University’s MA in Writing For Young People. In another life Emma wishes she’d written ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and three terriers.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane]

Emma excels in transporting her readers to a different place and time seemingly effortlessly. In Houdini Inheritance we are swept away into the shady world of vaudeville, where bitter rivalries cast dark shadows over the brilliant cast she has assembled. A real page turning adventure which kept me gripped to the very last page. Another absolute gem of a book!