10 odd things about the book entitled The Wormton Lamb (make that 11 things *stance*

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1.                The story begins with a growth hormone experiment that goes horribly wrong.

2.                The tale of The Wormton Lamb asks us what are we doing to rural communities and our environment through the unseen effects of self-interest by people who have sold their souls.

3.                The book introduces the traffiscope, a means of predicting the future by studying the traffic. What road sign are you?

4.                It is set in the wider Wold around the flock market town of Wormton.

5.                It also introduces the Mithering Brethren who believe souls can be improved if they are thwarted in their endeavours but you’ve probably already met them in real life.

6.                The Wormton Lamb is a B-movie disaster story set not in the desert but up on the moors, nowhere near any atomic bomb tests but where the granite makes yer Geiger counter tick anyway.

7.                Soul traders are involved somehow, of that you can be certain.

8.                While no-one takes responsibility for endangering the environment of the Wold, it’s down to those who actually live in the Wold to clear up the consequent catastrophe.

9.                The Wormton Lamb features Nick Hob the Horsepower Whisperer in a minor but essential role, as well as his soul trading partners Reverend Tregaskis and the Foundling of Rauschenberg, not to mention The Big Grey Man himself.

10.             The story shows (daemonstrates even) the lengths to which some soul traders will go to create a soul they find valuable.

11.             Any similarity to the legend of the Lambton Worm is purely coincidental.

 


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