The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster.
The world of UnLondon is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination..
They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondon locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle.
Guided by a magic book that can’t quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path.
UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero.
Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. and some of its lost and broken people too. . .
Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up .
It was turning off London.
The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. . .
The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny .
Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder.
As the light lessened, so did the sound.
The room grew darker.
The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster
