The Borrowers Afloat is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1959 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US.

[2][3] Arrietty Clock and her parents Pod and Homily have arrived safely at their relatives' home in the walls of a gamekeeper's cottage.

The place has become legendary for Borrowers: a whole village made for Borrower-size residents, with plenty of food dropped by visiting big people.

Spiller guides them through the drains beneath the house and lets them stay in one of his hideouts, a tea kettle, while he investigates Little Fordham.

However, Spiller arrives just in time to help, and Mild Eye falls into the water and is then arrested for poaching by a passing policeman.