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BfK No. 31 - March 1985

Cover Story
The illustration on the cover of this issue is from the new Bodley Bookshelf edition of Penelope Farmer's The Summer Birds. We think Paul Geiger's artwork catches exactly the magic of that delightful book. We are grateful for the help of The Bodley Head in using this illustration. For details of the book and more about Penelope Farmer, turn to May We Recommend... on page 14.

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The Driftway

Penelope Lively
(Puffin Books)
978-0140314977, RRP £2.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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This novel would no doubt prove a boon to those colleagues who relish stories that provide opportunties to 'branch out' into lots of non-fiction work,' 'centered' on the novel. Paul and Sandra run away from home and their ill-liked step-mother; heading for their Grandma's, a few miles distant in Oxfordshire. Their route takes them along an ancient driftway, which they travel at leisurely pace with Bill, a very ponderous horse and cart driver. The lad's highly-charged emotional state enables him to glimpse the shadows of past events cast down on this old drovers' road and as a result get his own feelings into a clearer perspective. Without doubt this novel does exemplify Penelope Lively's creative and imaginative gifts but I suspect it of being a little too slow for many young solo readers.

Reviewer: 
David Bennett
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