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Description

In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford goes back to his earliest encounters with books,... read more

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First Sentence

"I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house," my mother used to say.

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  1. Francis Spufford (Author)
 

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