Erotic Peter Pan 'sequel' sparks outrage

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.

Eccentric British writer Moore, who has turned the graphic novel into a literary force with books such as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has spent 16 years working on the 400-page book with his partner, the illustrator Melinda Gebbie. In Lost Girls, Wendy and two other stars of children's literature, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, meet up in later life and discuss their colourful sexual experiences, which include a variety of graphically depicted acts including group sex. There is a sex scene on almost every page.

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