Re: BBC - The Big Read


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Posted by Mike Field on May 23, 2003 at 11:48:59 from 203.26.98.4 user mikefield.

In Reply to: BBC - The Big Read posted by Bruce_A_Clarke on May 19, 2003 at 07:50:13:

,,,, and also that Swallows and Amazons is mentioned directly in Shute's book No Highway --

"They went up together to the bedroom and had tea with Elspeth. Elspeth was reading Swallows and Amazons, bought for her that morning,,,, She told her father all about it. 'It's ever so exciting, Daddy,' she said. 'They did all sorts of things in boats, without any grown-ups with them at all! Can we go somewhere in the holidays and sail a boat, Daddy? Marjorie says there's a sort of series of books all about the same children. May I have another for my birthday?'"

Written in 1948. Elspeth, had she existed, would now be in her late sixties.

AR's made an awful lot of difference to an awful lot of kids for an awfully long time, hasn't he?


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