Coot Club

352 pp. Part of Ransome's famous Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, which recount the holiday adventures of children in the Lake District and Norfolk Broads. "The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the Swallows and Amazons when they return to the Lake District later that year. Along with a cast of new characters, Dick and Dorothea explore the North and South Broads and become 'able seamen'."