An unfortunate naut ical saga full of cardboard cut-outs

Inside Daniel Handler’s affected and unconvincing new novel, there’s a much better book screaming to get out.

We Are Pirates is the story of a frustrated teenage girl called Gwen Needle, who runs away from home with her best friend, the brother of a boy she has a crush on, an old man with dementia called Errol and one of his carers. Fuelled by ...