The Iron Woman. A Sequel to The Iron Man.

Author: Hughes, Ted

Published by Faber & Faber, 1993
US ed.: Dial Books, 1995

Illustrations: Andrew Davidson (UK), engravings by Barry Moser (US).

A sequel to a very popular book almost always sounds like a bad idea, like cashing in on the previous publication's fame, etc.

The Iron Woman is Hughes's attempt to expand on the story of Hogarth and the Iron Man but bringing in a different perspective.

Since his children where little, he had been trying to create a work that focused on girls rather than boys. In effect, the Iron Woman is very different from the Iron Man. The book is much about conservation, human ignorance towards our destruction of nature. A solution is brought about only when the two children, Lucy and Hogarth and the two iron beings work together.

See also The Iron Man and The Iron Woman (Audiobook).