Cover illustration: Lee Gibbons
Mope, mope, mope. That's all she ever seems to do nowadays. Well, there's more to living than just sitting around letting life slide past you.
Ione Muffet isn't going to sit around any more. Her father, professor Muffet, says she does nothing all day, but Ione decides to make the most of her last days of the holiday. With the help of her friend Ned Hump, she tries to put her plans into action, only to find chaos and confusion begin to spread...
Ione, Ned and the other characters first appeared in The Summer House Loon, which has now been reissued in a single volume with The Other Darker Ned as On the Summerhouse Steps.
"Characters burst noisily and eccentrically out of the pages."
Growing Point
The Other Darker Ned is a book for older children. It was first published in 1979.
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