For Lil, life at the Squawking Mackerel inn couldn-t be more miserable. She''s tasked with the sloppiest, grottiest jobs and picked on at every turn. Her only friend is Augustus Scratchy, a cantankerous crow with a habit of stealing. When the dread villain Rotten Bob Hatchet and his gang of cut-throat highwaymen begin attacking travellers on the road, things get really dire.Joining forces with a new servant boy, Ned, and armed with the contents of the inn-s lost property cupboard, a pocket full of revolting dumplings and some knicker elastic, Lil comes up with a plot to scare off Rotten Bob. And so the legend of Ghastly Jack Crowheart the Demon Highwayman is born!Dangerous highwaymen, furious crows, ludicrous underwear, and a turnip apocalypse - stand and deliver!
