The Child That Books Built

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It's a new book by Francis Spufford, ILX cult author of "I May Be Some Time" - and it's all about how his childhood was informed and deformed by childrens fiction including much ado about NARNIA.

In other words it is Mark S' ideal book and therefore he is punXoR-duty-bound to HATE IT!

― Tom, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha aaaaaargh!!

― mark s, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i are wanting this book as well!

― katie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Observer review. There's something a bit creepy and prurient about McCrum's disappointment that Spufford doesn't "reveal all".

― Ellie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Its the tease and then the hide though - that is what is annoying. Autobiography without the biography. Have you ever felt that you were being cheated?

― Pete, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes - after wading all the way through "ROTTEN - No Blacks No Irish No Dogs".

― Sam, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes - after wading all the way through "ROTTEN - No Blacks No Irish No Dogs".

I fairly glided through that. Very enjoyable I thought.

― David Inglesfield, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I liked this The Child That Books Built book.

errrrr, nore piercing analysis from the vicar, thank you, thank you.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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