As the 20th century draws to a close, weird things start to happen in this story which was shortlisted for the 1995 Smarties Book Prize. Telly Craven lives on a windfarm with her family and is a "Weather Eye", which shares information by computer about climatic conditions around the world. Floods, earthquakes and force ten gales rage. It's during such a storm that Telly is struck by the heavy cladding of a turbine blade and has a "near death" experience, leaving her with strange psychic powers. Now she is the "Weather Eye" with a clear, if daunting purpose: to save the world. The adventures that follow are by turns dramatic, gripping and intensely funny. Lesley Howarth has written "The Flower King", which was shortlisted for the 1993 Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. She is also the author of "Maphead", which was shortlisted for the W.H.Smith Mindboggling Books Award and the Writers' Guild Children's Book Award.