Caroline Lewis is a pen-name, that of the team of Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple, who wrote both Clara in Wonderland and a sequel, Lost in Wonderland . These two novels deal with British frustration and anger about the Boer War and with Britain’s political leadership at the beginning of the twentieth century. – But this book is not a stuffy study in early twentieth-century British politics – it is a splendid parody, amusing as much for what it parodies as for its reflection of Lewis Carroll’s originals, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass . Now, in 2010, more than a century from the book’s first publication, Clara in Blunderland has to stand on its own in a way that it didn’t in 1902. But it spans the century surprisingly well… Politics and politicians haven’t changed much – it seems – in a century. That may be regrettable – but at least Caroline Lewis can still make us laugh about it!