Vita Tugwell is a 21st Century Suffragette. She lives in England in spite of its dreadful weather and light romantic comedies and partakes, often, of High Tea. She wishes ill fortune upon the person or persons unknown who have stolen her bicycle.
Yes, she is currently working on the third novel in the Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl series, in between chocolate bourbons.
Behold the world of Petticoat Katie and Sledgehammer Girl!
In a parallel universe, this is how 1908 would look – eccentric inventors, militant Suffragettes, cute little airships zipping across England and a hundred monkeys jammed into an office in Piccadilly typing Penny Dreadfuls by the dozen.
Petticoat Katie, outrageous flirt and hopeless with numbers, fumbles her way through romantic entanglements and dodgy adventures like a poodle with a hangover looking for its next biscuit.
Sledgehammer Girl – substantial, imposing, blunt as a rubber mallet – prefers gadgets over people and takes no nonsense from either, especially when they get between her and a decent cup of tea.
Together, the two housemates and their equally-loveable friends face the perils of outrageous fortune-tellers, midnight gardeners, flamboyant performers in the Cabinet of Curiosities, exploding bicycles, the most potent peppermint creams in London and the Wickedest Man In The World.
Silly steampunk at its finest!
The first three Petticoat Katie novels in one giant volume. All titles available separately - MAIDEN FLIGHT, BOOM TOWN, MONKEY BUSINESS. Silly steampunk at its finest!
Life with a hundred monkeys and two rival inventors can be tiring, so Petticoat Katie heads to Italy for a short holiday with the dashing Scipio Jones. Chaos, of course, fills in the gaps. The third uproarious novel in the Petticoat Katie & Sledgehammer Girl series of silly steampunk adventures, featuring yet more crazy inventions, off-the-wall characters and impossible situations.
Petticoat Katie returns for a second hilarious helping of mayhem and peppermints in a non-stop caper bursting with outrageous characters, unlikely inventions and a surprising number of exploding lawns.
What do you do when your arch-nemesis gives you a hundred monkeys? Petticoat Katie takes off on her first full-length adventure crammed with tea and peppermints, lovestruck inventors, Icelandic feminists - and a remarkable little airship.