Published by Harper Collins.
‘…do you ever feel like you read books, like more than other people?’
I have just spent the day just lying in the garden and reading this small proof.
Its brilliant.
Harper Collins should sell it along side copies of Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) and The Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett).
Perhaps in a slip case.
Should you follow my advice and buy and read a copy of Pages and Co, the reason for this suggestion will be obvious.
It isn’t necessary for the reader to have read them, but you may enjoy Pages and Co a little more if you understand the references, and know about the characters. To those and quite a few other books too. If you haven’t read them – not to worry, you really don’t need to, but may find when you have finished Pages and Co, that you will want to…
This is a book of books, if ever there was one.
I always knew that libraries and in particular bookshops, were important, slightly magical places. I’m a member of the British Library and am now aware of the British Underlibrary as well and would be honoured to be a member of that too, and would love to work there. I have worked in bookshops for about 25 years all in – so I know about how magical they can be. Perhaps my experience would assist in my application….
This is stupendous. A celebration, if you would, of good writing, good stories – simply marvellous. As I said, its a magical book of books.
Buy it when it comes out in September (2018) – you may find that it is available before publication – so its worth placing your orders…now. Place them with us at Waterstones Finchley Road O2, there’s just a chance we may have Anna James for an event – so signed copies may be available. Certainly worth the time and trouble.
I owe Amabel for this – she brought the book back from a Harper Collins Publisher’s ‘do’ this week, as she thought it was ‘for me.’ How right she was/is.
3rd August – NB:
My dad, has just mentioned that the illustration above, isn’t one of the proof I read. It has no title on the ‘boards’. He said I must change the picture. Instead, I thought I would leave it – it has such similarity, that I don’t think it matters.
My father is a perfectionist. Which means that leaving this as it is was would not do. Sadly so am I, but in the interests of being ‘Sue’ – there is this warning. The picture above will not be the same as that you will find on the book, when you receive your copy!
ure about this. I am used to selling a ‘sub genre ‘ of titles written by Holly Webb to young 5 – 8-year-old girls. Still, it is the new sequel to The Secret Garden, and for that reason alone, let alone Holly Webb’s prodigious list of published books it deserved to be read with due respect. I finished my last book last night and started this. Emmie is evacuated from her orphanage in London at the start of the Second World War and has to leave the stray cat she has befriended behind. Confused, frightened and very lonely she really isn’t happy even though she seems to have gained considerable freedom in Yorkshire. Initially it felt like a Holly Webb book, which isn’t a bad thing, but not necessarily right for this, however I strongly believe that a book that incites an emotional response is a good one, and I found my self extraordinarily moved by this tale as I came home this evening. I shall take to Yorkshire and give my proof to my sister to read – she always loved The Secret Garden and I’m sure she will love this too!
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