But like her capable literary heroine, detective/veterinarian/artist Francie Dewdrop, she's made of sterner stuff-and is soon turning up startling clues, terrifying discoveries and, in the asylum's darker reaches, other young captives with decidedly peculiar abilities. "Now sit up straight and eat your Lumps." Locked into her room at night by "Aunts" Primrose and Prudence and fed only Mystery Lumps, Anastasia nearly succumbs to misery at first.
So when she meets Ollie and Quentin, two magical brothers hidden in the depths of the asylum, the three join forces as the League of Beastly Dreadfuls to plot their great escape.Two sinister spinsters spirit a seemingly ordinary fifth-grader away one day to a moldering former asylum, informing her that she's become an orphan and they are her great-aunts. organization she hears whispers of? Is it odd that her Aunties wear the same ring as the evil school secretary? And why, for goodness sake, do they collect pictures of missing children? Anastasia soon begins to suspect that her aunties are not who they say they are. But Anastasia can’t help notice that something strange is going on at the asylum. There, Anastasia’s loving aunties give her everything a little girl could want: a cozy bedroom (with a creepy child-shaped hollow in its rotting cot), sumptuous meals (Mmmmm! Mystery Lumps!), and character-building responsibilities (catching leeches! polishing chamber pots!). Agony’s Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
After Anastasia McCrumpet’s parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident, she’s rescued by two long lost great-aunties and taken to their delightful and, er, “authentic” Victorian home, St.
0 kommentar(er)
