Caleb Krisp's whimsical debut follows twelve-year-old Ivy Pocket, a delightfully deluded orphan maid with an inflated sense of her own charm, who is abandoned in Paris and tasked by a dying duchess with delivering the priceless (and possibly cursed) Clock Diamond necklace to spoiled heiress Matilda Butterfield on her birthday. Ivy's journey to England plunges her into a whirlwind of ghosts, attempted murders, sinister conspiracies, and supernatural visions, all narrated with hilarious unreliability and gothic flair in this madcap adventure reminiscent of Lemony Snicket.
