Then when I was about 11 or 12, Christopher Pike was the thing to read. The Narnia series, the Black Cauldron series, and Enid Blyton’s books like Willow Farm and the Faraway Tree. I read and reread Ballet Shoes and the other Noel Steatfeild books we owned like White Boots, Apple Bough, and Curtain Up. While I faintly recollect possessing this book, and reading some of it (did I ever finish reading it?), it was not among my favourites. Who thought of it? A Penelope Lively reader? One of my aunts, now estranged, was quite the reader, we used to hang out in her attic room on Sundays when my cousins, my sister and I went over for dinner with the grandparents (she always chased us out) and I would browse her shelves – perhaps it was her? Or was it just a bargain book at a sale? I ask my mother but she doesn’t remember the book. But I do have this recollection of a pale sort of cover, not the sort of the book that would attract a child.Īs I read the book today, decidedly not a child, I wonder who bought this book for us. But I’ve googled book covers and have yet to find anything resemble what I remember. As I think back now, I recall a cover with an ammonite, a hint of a beach (or a cliff?) and a girl. I’m not quite sure why A Stitch in Time was among my bookshelves as a child.
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