Sylvia Waugh

From the outside, 5 Brocklehurst Grove looks like an ordinary house - the windows are always clean, and the garden well tended. And from the inside, to hear the voices of the inhabitants, the Mennym family, you would think they were a perfectly ordinary family, too. But you'd be wrong, for the Mennyms are far from ordinary.

The whole family shares an astonishing secret behind which it's hidden for forty years; a secret to which nobody has ever come close... until perhaps, now. When an airmail letter from Australia comes through the letterbox of number 5, its contents are enough to plunge the whole family into fear that now, for the first time, the mystery surrounding it is about to be exposed...

The Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, wake up to find their household has been moved and they are now under the care of an eccentric but loving old antiques dealer who soon suspects their secret.

The life-size family of rag dolls face their most awesome challenge yet. 

The continuing adventures of the Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls pretending to be human, as they try to cope with a series of ardent admirers whose attentions threaten to pierce the family's veil of secrecy.

The Mennym family face a crisis when their home is threatened by motorway development and they must move to the country. 

For five years Thomas and his father have lived a normal, happy life but now they must face the truth as the past catches up with them. What is their secret and can they both survive?