The Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis

This meant that he knew the ultimate fates of all the characters from the beginning and was able to easily insert foreshadowing. The entire storyline of the trilogy was worked out by Jarvis before he sat down to write it.

When Jarvis's editor told him that the manuscript could make a trilogy due to its long length, he went away and cut it, and then came up with more ideas for the second and third books. He had originally envisioned it as a picture book, but it became a 70,000 word manuscript. At the time there wasn't one, but Jarvis then wrote the story of The Deptford Mice. The publisher responded positively and asked if there was a story to accompany the drawings.

Jarvis continued to doodle mice, and when a friend of his saw the sketches, he suggested they be sent to a publisher. That something was a mouse who would become the character Oswald Chitter. He had been designing a big, furry alien but decided to take a break and draw something small. Jarvis came up with the idea for The Deptford Mice while working as a model-maker for television programmes and commercials. The Crystal Prison and The Final Reckoning were published there in 20 respectively. In 2000, The Deptford Mice trilogy made its debut in the United States with the publication of The Dark Portal by SeaStar Books. The first book in the series, The Dark Portal, was a runner-up for the Smarties book prize in 1989. The trilogy tells the story of a young mouse girl named Audrey Brown and her friends as they fight Jupiter, the evil living god of the sewer rats in the London borough of Deptford. The first book, The Dark Portal, was published in 1989 by Macdonald & Company in London, followed that same year by The Crystal Prison and then The Final Reckoning in 1990. The Deptford Mice is a trilogy of children's dark fantasy novels by British author Robin Jarvis.

The Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis