Cinebook ltd: Miss Endicott Part 1 & Part 2

 

Authors: Jean-Christophe Derrien & Xavier Fourquemin

Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 80 colour pages
Publication: July 2021

ISBN: 9781849185448 

£11,99

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/miss-endicott-part-1-p-4452.html

After many years abroad, Prudence Endicott is back in England to bury her mother. Hired as a nanny by a wealthy London family, the young woman immediately begins to spend her nights in the more working-class neighbourhoods … For Miss Endicott is now the new Conciliator, she who helps the poor and the humble to solve their problems when society ignores them. A difficult task – especially as something sinister appears to be brewing underneath London …

Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 80 colour pages
Publication: July 2021

£11,99

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/miss-endicott-part-2-p-4453.html

Miss Endicott’s life as a Conciliator is off to a bad start: a strange plot is being hatched in the tunnels beneath London, her headquarters have been torched, the child whose nanny she is by day has disappeared while following her at night … and to top it all, her mother, whom everyone believed dead, has reappeared! A blessing, or a curse? Can two Conciliators together defeat the mysterious master – assuming two Conciliators could ever work together?

These books have that cartoonish style that at first makes you wonder whether you should botherreading the book but, as I have found many times before, the artwork is deceptive. The various scenes and action as well as the period clothing all work well together and the art style simply works.

As for the contents andthe story. Well, where to begin? Characteristion is lovely  and the body movements drawn in a style that works for drama, comic relief and dire threats. Oh, and in case you think this is a Mary Poppins style story -don't.

Miss Endicott is far more Buffy -Vampire Slayer (but without the vampires)  with an ending that might be seen as sad by some but which made me wonder "Where will Miss Endicott turn up next?" 

I was not really into wanting to read the two books but I did in one go. There are cerytain series that draw you in like that and for myself I would like to see far more of Miss Endicott!