Cover illustration: Lee Gibbons
Maybe I'm the only person in the world who wants to be different from what I am
Ione Muffet has spent every summer she can remember alone in the summer house at the end of her garden. But the arrival of the extraordinary Ned Hump changes all that. Ione's father, Professor Muffet, his beautiful secretary, Caroline, and Ned give Ione a riotous introduction to adult life — how not to cope with love, money, careers and forty uninvited guests.
The Summer House Loon and its sequel, The Other Darker Ned, have now been reissued in a single volume as On the Summerhouse Steps.
"Perceptive and very funny ... a series of extraordinary and hilarious events."
The Guardian
The Summer House Loon, a book for older children, was first published in 1978.
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