The Hollow Land

Homes which relish the very best children's literature has to offer will treasure The Hollow Land. Nine stories, rich in character and incident, combine to form a mini saga of two families --- one local to the Cumbrian fells, one 'incomers' from London. Individually the stories speak easily to young readers; the whole which spans over twenty years, reaching forward to 1999, presents the experienced reader with a pattern of developing relationships and linking incidents which is both satisfying and intriguing. The writing is individual, observant, funny: a celebration of a landscape and its people by someone who clearly loves both.

With apologies for the cliché, this really is a book that lingers in the mind and the imagination.