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416 pages : colour illustrations Summary: After being abandoned by their actor parents one afternoon while playing their weekly family game of hide-and-seek, Whimsy and Woe Mordaunt are left in the care of their austere Aunt Atropine. Forced to work in her boarding house year after year, looking after the guests and sharpening the thorns of every plant in the poisonous plant garden, Whimsy and Woe lose all hope that their parents will someday return. Until one day, quite by accident, the siblings stumble upon a half-charred letter that sets them on a course to freedom and finding their parents. (Publisher) Whimsy and Woe v. 1