Then Came the Liars, Then Came the Fools
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.
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The plot could be a short story - Leila believes she can will things to happen and anyone who crosses her has some kind of accident - but it's the manner of the telling and the richness of the detail, especially the setting, which really hold your attention. We have a bleak vision of economic decay some time in the future where the excitement of the day is the arrival of the circus show freaks. In the following chapter we are taken back a year and then successively brought back to the present for a finale which virtually repeats the earlier arrival of the circus with a crucial additional scene. A very striking and haunting story.
