What a terrific read!

The city of London is on wheels, as are all the towns and cities of Europe. Massive steam engines propel the towns over land and dusty sea beds. The large towns chase down the small towns and when they catch them they devour them, reusing the metal, commandeering the food and making any human survivors slaves to keep the large towns running. The skies are filled with airships – the glamour form of transport of the day.

Tom was working in the Natural History section of the London Musem as an apprentice when it all began.

“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”

A fateful decision to go to the observation decks to watch the chase sparks a series of events that see Tom pushed from the moving city and left for dead, in the wastelands with only a horribly disfigured would-be assassin for company.

Tom and Hester, for different reasons, both want to get back to London. An adventure packed with airships, pirates and indestructable resurrected men follows and all that Tom believes and respects about London and its heroes is set to change forever.

This is a totally engrossing and entertaining read. I want to be inside Philip Reeve’s head!

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Ms Carrington.