So, the rural community is under serious threat, and the farmers decide to dig a gigantic trap. The Iron Woman. Her first target for destruction is the waste-disposal factory where Lucy's dad and most of the men in the town are employed. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants to save her dad.
Sequels tend to be a very difficult thing, like cashing in on previous success.
Other than The Iron Man , this book has an environmental issue foregrounded. Environmental protection was one of Ted Hughes's lifelong concerns. He thought that our destruction of nature posed a most serious threat to humankind's survival. The Iron Woman transports much of this concern. The Iron Woman is the result of these efforts.