Kate Grimond

Pigtails among the haystacks

issue 19 February 2005

  • The Dangerous Edge of Things

    Candida Lycett Green

    Doubleday, pp. 336

During the bitter winter that seized Britain in earnest at the end of January 1947, the children of the village of Farnborough on the Berkshire Downs went to the pictures in Wantage to see Courage of Lassie but were unable to return home on the bus because of a heavy fall of snow.

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