Liquid Fiction
Thomas Jones: ‘The Child that Books Built’, 25 April 2002
The Child that Books Built: A Memoir of Childhood and Reading
by Francis Spufford.
Faber, 214 pp., £12.99, April 2002,0 571 19132 0 Show More
by Francis Spufford.
Faber, 214 pp., £12.99, April 2002,
A Child’s Book of True Crime: A Novel
by Chloe Hooper.
Cape, 238 pp., £12.99, February 2002,0 224 06237 9 Show More
by Chloe Hooper.
Cape, 238 pp., £12.99, February 2002,
“... about lying in the long grass at the edge of the playground with his friends Richard and Roger, ‘trying to fart at will’; about avoiding Julie, ‘who liked to pounce on innocent-looking kids and ask them the Question – “D’you know what having it off means?”’; about the time Francis ‘crept onto the landing and kissed Aslan’s ... ”