The Ministry of Unladylike Activity: (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity)
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Author and creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series is back with the start of a new thrilling Second World War mystery series.
Set in 1940, Britain is in the midst of the Second World War. A secret agency of the British Government - The Ministry of Unladylike Activity is recruiting and training up spies to help bring the war to an end. May Wong, a stubborn and incredibly intelligent kid is determined to get back to Hong Kong and leave the school she hates behind forever. She knows she would make the perfect spy, as let's face it grown-ups never take kids like her seriously but she and her friend Eric are turned away from the ministry.
Taking matters into their own hands they masquerade as evacuees and travel to Elysium Hall, home to the very wealthy Verey family, including snobby and precocious Nuala. They believe that the Verey family is passing information to the Germans but soon find out that there are more secrets at Elysium Hall than they could ever have imagined. Then someone is murdered - what have they got themselves into? We can't wait to read and find out!
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- Contributor: Robin Stevens
- Imprint: Puffin
- ISBN13: 9780241429860
- Number of Pages: 416
- Packaged Dimensions: 162x222x37mm
- Packaged Weight: 599
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Release Date: 2022-09-29
- Series: The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life.When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher.Robin is now a full-time author and the creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, and the brand-new Ministry of Unladylike Activity. She still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in England.
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