Two orphans, Nathan and Sam, swap places. Sam runs off with a circus, and Nathan finds himself in the strangest kind of school where no one learns anything and an odd scientist in the tower wants to enlist his help in contacting life from outer space. Set in the author's own idiosyncratic version of nineteenth-century England.
- ISBN10 0192750933
- ISBN13 9780192750938
- Publish Date 1 October 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English