Stewart Lee & David Waywell | Pea Green Boat - Signed Copy

9781529988604

03/09/26

HB

96 pages

SIGNED COPY

From award-winning comedian and bestselling author Stewart Lee, his first original book in fifteen years: a brilliantly dark comedic retelling of Edward
Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat - and the tragic 'true' story behind it.

I am having problems relating to my crew member, having never been a
great fan of cats, nor they of birds. Why have we been press ganged into
service together? What can they hope to achieve by sending this absurd
duo out to sea? I am an owl. The Cat is a cat...

In Pea Green Boat, Stewart Lee and David Waywell create a dark, grotesque
reteling of The Owl and the Pussycat in which Edward Lear's characters are
revealed to be catastrophicaly poorly-equipped for maritime travel. Told through
the increasingly deranged diary of the Owl, the real story is unmasked – he
cannot open the honey jar due to his lack of opposable thumbs, he is terrified
the cat wi l eat him in his sleep, and he struggles to play the guitar despite
having no fingers. As hunger, exhaustion and poor navigation take their tol, it
becomes clear that these two creatures should never have been put in a boat
together.

Inspired by the cult 2001 stage piece, Pea Green Boat blends Lee’s fascination
with Edward Lear with his own comedy. Now, with David's gothic-comic
i lustrations, the story is brought vividly, hilariously and unsettlingly to life.