What if I don’t want to go back to a life of storms and
soggy seas biscuits?’ said Captain Blunderfuss. ‘What if
I’d rather stay here and search for treasure instead?’
When a pair of unruly fictional pirates escape out of
their book into Victorian London, 11-year-old Odelia
Hardluck-Smythe’s lonely life is turned upside down.
Captain Blunderfuss and Cook are rude, dangerous
and obsessed with marzipan fruits, but they could be
the answer to all her prayers. Pirates mean treasure
and poor, fatherless Odelia could really do with some
of that. Unfortunately, there’s more to ‘treasure’ than
buried chests of rubies and diamonds, as Odelia’s about
to discover the hard way.