The Moonlighters

<p><b><i>Peter Pan</i> meets <i>Oliver Twist</i> in the magical new book by rising star Lee Newbery, author of Waterstones Children''s Book of the Month, <i>The Last Firefox</i>.<br></b><br>When ten-year-old Theo runs off from a school trip to London''s Natural History Museum and decides to pay his gran a surprise visit, he discovers the surprise is on him - his gran is on holiday and Theo finds himself alone in the big city with nowhere to turn.<br><br>Enter Alistair Goodfellow, a mysterious, flamboyant young person with a charismatic twinkle in their eye. Alistair offers Theo a room at the Casablanca Lily - by day, a run-down and unloved hotel; by night, a palace of magical wonders.<br><br>Each night, Alistair sends their found family of runaways and ne''er-do-wells, the Moonlighters, out into London in search of lost magical artefacts, gifting them their own magical powers as a reward.<br><br>Theo is quickly enthralled, but there is more to Alistair than meets the eye, and soon Theo