Men are just boys
Marina Warner: Boys’ Play, 6 May 2021
No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family’s Missing Men
by Sally Bayley.
William Collins, 253 pp., £14.99, January,978 0 00 831888 8 Show More
by Sally Bayley.
William Collins, 253 pp., £14.99, January,
“... house, into the lavatory, and then, when she becomes a truant and a runaway, she walks up Highdown Hill and sits in the open air. In The Child that Books Built (2002), Francis Spufford’s self-portrait of the author as reader, he tracks his journey from picture books to teenage comics and his first encounters with pornography. His childhood was lonely because ... ”