“It’s a funny world if they don’t learn about stories” – William Mayne’s A Grass Rope
I’ve been reading William Mayne’s A Grass Rope, published in 1957, for the next chapter of my book. Mayne’s one of those sort of seminal authors who is currently out of fashion yet to my mind is more accessible than say Alan Garner. As I’ve also just re-read Phillipa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden which brought [...]