Vicious Circle
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This issue’s cover is from the picture book adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe illustrated by Christian Birmingham. Thanks to Collins Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.
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Vicious Circle
Ten-year-old Louisa May and her mother Georgette are homeless, living in a series of shabby boarding house. Georgette inhabits a fantasy world of high romance, fuelled by her incessant reading of romantic fiction. Nevertheless, the bond between mother and daughter is strong and when Georgette falls ill, Louisa May needs the friendship of Joanna, who helps her to find the father she never knew. Sensitive issues are handled carefully by Pielichaty, but Georgette's theatrical speech and the rather stilted narrative style occasionally detract from a worthy and entertaining tale.
