Bleak Expectationsis the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from his guardian, the scheming, evil and badly-named Mr. Gently Benevolent, and the blood-curdling Hardthrasher brothers. A Victorian epic of awful schools, worse prisons, nuns at St. Bitch's, giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts, in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin.