Bagthorpes V. the World — Helen Cresswell

‘We're bankrupted! It's happened! I knew it would, I knew it would!'

Another blood-freezing chapter in the Bagthorpe Saga has begun. A bank overdraft of millions plunges the household into despair but Mr Bagthorpe has the answer -- self-sufficiency.

In the ensuing chaos, when pansies grow instead of beetroot, and demon Daisy conducts funerals for lamb chops, Grandma Bag and Great Aunt Lucy add to the confusion by waging a battle of eccentricity.

Bagthorpes v. the World is the fourth book about the entertaining, eccentric and exasperating Bagthorpe family.