A timeless story celebrating friendship and imagination from an exciting new voice in
children's literature. Mabel lives with her parents in the Mermaid Hotel by the sea. Mabel
likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests. Then one day a particularly
in-ter-est-ing old lady comes to stay. There is something very suspicious about her with her
growly voice and her heavy trunks and her beady-eyed tortoise. And why does no one know her
REAL name? There can only be one answer Mabel decides ... this guest is a SUPERVILLAIN. But
even supervillains have a soft side and as an unlikely friendship grows between the pair
their fantastical exploits take them well beyond the corridors of their seaside home.
