David Bramhall

Patience and the Pyrate David Bramhall

'Charming, alarming, violent and strange, a cross between Treasure Island, The Railway Children and Deliverance'!

Patience and the Pyrate is the fifth and final volume of 'The Greatest Cape' series, and follows on from The Black Joke, The Bernadette, Rio Sagrado and Turnstone, continuing the saga of the Potts and Prettyfoot families.



The very decided Patience Potts and her friend Silmonella pursue pirates and fairies and get themselves into a nasty situation, while Patience's mother has problems of her own. At the school, one tiny teacher is touched by her pupils' attentions and another has a crisis of conscience. And on the railway, sinister events are in train (pun intended).

... there's a mysterious ship in the harbour. Oh no, not another one?
... what does Slingsby Sourdew get up to in the lavs at playtime?
... a schoolboy plans the Great Train Robbery for his classroom project ...
... two little girls find themselves in very deep water. With some sheep.
... and a couple of miles out of town, something very strange waits and watches ...

What readers have said about Patience and the Pyrate ...
"... the two little girls who are the main protagonists have raised childish prattle to a fine art, lunatic and slightly threatening", "... delightful and three-dimensional characters", "... both the story and the way it is told are endearingly daft. I loved it!".

A hefty, rollicking read that will delight and absorb adults who haven't lost their childish sense of adventure, and children who aren't afraid of a few long words. The four preceding novels in the series, The Black Joke, The Bernadette, Rio Sagrado and Turnstone are all available from Amazon.