Independent On Sunday: To J M Barrie she was an innocent mother-like child, prone to nothing more than a flirtatious yearning to kiss Peter Pan; to a new audience, she is at the centre of explicit sexual encounters in a book which its writer admits is "pornography".
Lost Girls, an extraordinary 400-page book by the acclaimed writer Alan Moore, chronicles a series of erotic fantasies starring the heroine of children's classic Peter Pan.
But the book, to be published later this month, has horrified Great Ormond Street Hospital which owns the rights to the character and claims the subject matter is "inappropriate". It is now considering its next move after the US publisher Top Shelf Productions told The Independent on Sunday it is planning to distribute the book in the UK. [Read more]
