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ADVANCE INFORMATION

Finn Button and

The Discovery of

Adria

Lakshmi-Raj Jesa

KEY SELLING POINTS

An epic adventure all set within a fish tank in a young boy’s bedroom.
Full of submarines and glass pods, unusual water creatures and The Rotterbogs, a group of water ogres.
The hero, Finn, is an introvert and was written in part to challenge the stereotypes of main characters in
children’s books.
For middle grade readers and in particular, those fascinated by ocean life.

When eleven-year-old Finn is given a fish tank by a complete stranger in the street it is the start of an amazing
adventure. That evening, he sets it up at home. In the middle of the night, he is woken up by a crab making
noises in the tank. When he moves towards the tank, he discovers an octopus sitting in the corner, who then
pulls him into the tank. There he discovers a fantastic underwater world called Adria, inhabited by miniature
humans called Aquaplings. One of them is a famous inventor called Ged Sinclair. Finn joins Ged on a mission
to rescue his missing son, Henry.

Whilst there, Finn becomes entangled in long-standing tensions and a battle-in-the-making between The
Rotterbogs, a community of water ogres, who want to regain control of Adria and ordinary Aquaplings. It is only
later he learns that his being there was no chance encounter; he was in fact placed there by the Rotterbogs to
be used as a pawn to obtain information from Ged, to assist in the battle.

As he deals with the challenges presented by The Rotterbogs and the water landscape, Finn evolves from a
quiet, curious boy into a confident and courageous one.

Lakshmi-Raj Jesa is a writer, living in London with her young son. She has a bachelor’s in History from The
School of Oriental and African Studies and a postgraduate qualification in International Relations of the
Americas from University College London.

Publication Date: 28th July 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805144540
Thema subject category: YFH – Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
paperback 198 x 129 mm 232 pp Portrait Author location: London

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