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Language English Pages 192 pp Originally published 1978 Genre Children's literature Illustrator Harold Jones | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 1978 ISBN 0-434-94898-5 Publisher Heinemann Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Penelope Lively books, Classical Studies books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Voyage of QV66 is a children's novel by Penelope Lively. It is set in a strange, flooded, somewhat post-apocalyptic England devoid of people, and centres on a group of animals consisting of a dog, a cat, a cow, a horse, a pigeon and a mysterious character named "Stanley".
Plot summary
The characters travel in a boat (the QV66 of the title) with the intention of reaching London Zoo so that they can discover what Stanley is. They have a number of adventures along the way, including being joined by a parrot, several characters losing their way in a balloon, and Stanley himself getting locked in a bank vault. It is eventually revealed that Stanley is a monkey.
References
The Voyage of QV66 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA