Author(s): Bryan Talbot

Comics & Graphic Novels

Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint, "The Tale of One Bad Rat" is the story of a young girl, Helen Potter, who runs away from home to escape an uncaring mother and a sexually abusive father. Eventually she finds her way to the Lake District, drawn there by her love of the work of Beatrix Potter, and in that beautiful landscape she at last finds peace.