Description In this sweeping and inventive debut novel that\'s perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, and Tim Burton, a prodigal inventor flees his home to find his destiny.
Together they journey through a strange landscape of fish-people, giantess miners, and hypnotized honeybees in an adventure that will not only reveal the truth about Walter\'s past, but direct his future..
Walter runs away in the family hearse along with Cordelia, the moody girl next door with one eye and plenty of secrets.
When a letter arrives by unusual means offering Walter an apprenticeship, it isn\'t long before Walter decides to flee Moormouth to meet his destiny.
Far off on Flaster Isle, famed inventor Horace Flasterborn plans to take Walter under his wing, just as he did Walter\'s genius father decades ago.
After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter\'s mother demands he cut the nonsense and join the family mortuary business.
In the humdrum town of Moormouth, Walter Mortinson\'s unusual Inventions cause nothing but trouble.
Description In this sweeping and inventive debut novel that\'s perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, and Tim Burton, a prodigal inventor flees his home to find his destiny
