Mudlarking, monsters and misfits
Posted on Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Category: Authors Q&As
Becca Rogers tells ReadingZone about her new fantasy adventure, The Girl With Gills, a story about mudlarkers who can swim underwater; a debt from the past that must be repaid; and fantastical creatures in the river's depths!
More about The Girl with Gills: In a time and place which might be now, people with gills, outcast larkers, live in secret communities.
They have houseboats along the river. Concealing their gills from land lubbers, they scour the mudbanks, trade their finds and live off their wits. 13-year-old Effra has been supporting her brother, Fleet, alone since their beloved grandfather died six months ago. When merciless Rivermun, a larker gone bad, threatens Fleet, Effra's quests begins.
Read a chapter from The Girl with Gills (read by Becca Rogers in this video)
Find out more in ReadingZone's indepth Q&A with Becca Rogers
