Journey
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The illustration on our cover is taken from Think of an Eel, Karen Wallace, ill. Mike Bostock, published by Walker (0 7445 2250 1, £6.99) - see the article 'Facts... With the Freshness of Fiction' for more about this book and others in the 'Read and Wonder' series. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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Really a long short-story, this intriguing exploration of family photographs and what they can reveal, is itself a series of snapshots, vividly realised in the sparsest prose. Journey's restless mother has taken off, leaving Grandpa and Grandma to gather up the rags of their tattered family life and help their grandson and daughter get their jumbled emotions into focus. It's the albums and Grandpa's obsessive photography that becomes the medium for '... dealing with things that everybody knows about but isn't attending to'. A must!