The Li’l Wizard
Children are reading. New authors, new genres and book festivals are in the air.
Remember sharing midnight feasts with blue-eyed English girls in boarding schools like St Clare’s and Mallory Towers, and deriving vicarious gastronomic pleasure from such mysteriously exotic fare as potted meats and anchovies? Or navigating misty moors and clambering stormy Dover cliffs in the breathless trail of adventurous children watching for secret signals from lighthouses?