![]() ![]() ![]() After hours of wandering they find themselves in the altar chamber of Jupiter. ![]() He meets a young city mouse named Piccadilly who is also lost and the two quickly become friends. One mouse named Albert Brown is drawn into the sewers by dark enchantments on the grill in the house's basement. No one has ever seen Jupiter, not even his subjects, and rumours abound as to who or what he truly is. ![]() The only problem they have is a fear of the vicious rats in the sewers below who worship a mysterious living god called Jupiter. Plot Ī community of mice lives an idyllic existence in an old empty house in the London borough of Deptford. In 2000, it was published by SeaStar Books in the United States and given the Booklist Editors' Choice designation. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Macdonald & Company in 1989, and was a runner-up for that year's Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Her search takes her into the sewers of Deptford where, with the help of her friends and family, she must face an army of evil rats and their living god, a mysterious being known as Jupiter. The first book in The Deptford Mice trilogy and Jarvis's debut novel, it follows the story of Audrey Brown, a mouse girl who is looking for her missing father. The Dark Portal is a dark fantasy novel for children by British author Robin Jarvis. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |