She has a job and it's on a yacht, so what will the piglets do to avoid becoming bacon? Fortunately Sarah Piggins is a good baker and makes a mean lemon meringue pie. In this hilarious story, her siblings don't; tell her that they have sold all the cakes to the circus.

The dialogue between the piglets in the chapter about the postman delivering a letter from their mother addressed to Sarah is a gem. Sarah certainly has her work cut out as she chases thirteen evil and one good for nothing piglet around. But then she wakes up one morning and finds she's been pignapped or so she thought. The circus ringmaster has quite a way of explaining to her that she has signed a 50 year contract which she's pretty sure didn't! She must escape.

This is sheer good fun, mischief and delightful reading for the age group and older.

The author

R.A. Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire – a town immortalised by Harry Potter’s deeply unpleasant relatives – until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia. The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertiliser to the growth of R.A.’s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed, and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today. Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of absurd and witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids and the Shockingly and Astonishingly Good Stories collections. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt, has had over 4 million downloads and connects R.A. with story-lovers across the globe. For more information, visit raspratt.com

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