In a nutshell: look into the pages for hypnotising adventure!
Georgia Byng’s story of the young girl who manages to swap a miserable life in an orphanage for the bright lights, fame and fortune of Broadway through her incredible talent for hypnotism has long been a favourite with readers. A larger-than-life story with all the ingredients of the page-turner including wicked villains, likeable heroine and fast-moving, fantastical plotline, it’s surprising that only now, some years after publication, has it been turned into a film. There’s more to Molly Moon than action and adventure however, and the novel cleverly poses questions about belonging, and the need for inner as well as outer transformation. Read the book before or after seeing the film. ~Andrea Reece
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Synopsis
Orphan Molly Moon was found as a baby in a box marked 'Moon's Marshmallows'.
For ten miserable years she's lived under the cruel rule of Miss Adderstone in grim Hardwick House. But her life changes overnight when she finds a mysterious book on hypnotism and discovers an amazing talent - the power to make people do anything she want them to. Escaping from the orphange, Molly flies to New York in search of fame and fortune. But her adventures in hypnotism lead her into the clutches of a dangerous enemy ...
The bestselling Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism has been adapted for film by Lionsgate, starring Domonic Monaghan, Lesley Manville, Emily Watson and Joan Collins.
This is the order Georgia Byng wrote the Molly Moon books:
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Molly Moon Stops the World
Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure
Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind Machine
Molly Moon and the Morphing Mystery
You can also visit Molly and her friends for some hypnotic fun, ringtones and games at www.meetmollymoon.co.uk
Georgia Byng grew up in a large, noisy family in a house outside Winchester, England, near the river Itchen. The nearby country lane with its many cottages was where Georgia Byng first found out about characters, for it was teeming with them, and she used to interview them. Georgia Byng now lives in a house in London full of old and new art, as her husband is the conceptual artist Marc Quinn. Marc keeps all sorts of strange things in the fridge—once he had to keep a Canadian frog in there as it was hibernating and had to be kept cold. They and their family—Tiger, Lucas, and Sky—love to travel, and their favorite destination is India where Georgia can research ideas for her new book or she can be found whizzing around London in her little electric car.