The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

by Robin Stevens
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/09/2022

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**The start of a thrilling new World War Two mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.


'Robin Stevens is Agatha Christie for children' - Katherine Rundell on the Murder Most Unladylike series


'Superb' - Observer**


'Absolutely thrilling' - Louie Stowell



  1. The world is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies.


Enter May Wong: courageous, stubborn, and desperate to help end the war so that she can go home to Hong Kong (and leave her annoying school, Deepdean, behind forever). May knows that she would make the perfect spy. After all, grown-ups always underestimate children like her.


When May and her friend Eric are turned away by the Ministry, they take matters into their own hands. Masquerading as evacuees, they travel to Elysium Hall, home to the wealthy Verey family - including snobby, dramatic Nuala. They suspect that one of the Vereys is passing information to Germany. If they can prove it, the Ministry will have to take them on.


But there are more secrets at Elysium Hall than May or Eric could ever have imagined.


And then, someone is murdered . . .


Join May, Eric and Nuala in the first unputdownable book in a fast-paced, mysterious and adventurous new series from million-copy-bestseller, Robin Stevens.

ISBN:
9780241429884
9780241429884
Category:
Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Robin Stevens

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. When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achievable option.

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 worked in children's publishing. She is now a full-time writer.

Robin now lives in London with her pet bearded dragon, Watson.

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