This beautifully illustrated cookery book certainly has a twenty-first century feel about it. Thinking ‘outside the box’ challenges any reader wishing to produce wonderful, wholesome, culinary dishes whilst utilising the many advantages of microwave appliances. Set to be a microwave-cooking book of reference.

Eleven-year-old Fritha tells this story of how she and her two brothers are taken away from their suburban home by their scatty mother Min. They end up living in an apparently deserted caravan in Cornwall, with no electricity or water. The children meet a boy from a far distant country who is involved in a dangerous intrigue.