These five stories abound with absorbing situations and memorable characters. Meet cussed, rebellious Miss Brady, who lives with a badger on a barge; the reviled old shepherd Reicker; Sally Beck, topiary gardener with an extraordinary past; the reclusive Egg Man; proudly independent Jakey... and the young people whose lives they profoundly affect.

Badger On The Barge was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Carnegie Medal; it was the winner of the International Reading Association Children's Book Award.