6/20/2023 0 Comments Richmal crompton![]() Exploring reviews of Family Roundabout on Amazon led me to one by a lady called Lyn. Delafield’ in their catalogue confirmed that I might rather like this publishing house. I picked up the Persephone edition in my local library, and started to explore what else they had republished – seeing ‘E.M. I loved Family Roundabout, and so was surprised when (in 2003) I saw that it had been reprinted. I don’t know if things would have happened anyway, somehow, but the path would have been different. ![]() Picking up that old red hardback of Family Roundabout changed my life in enormous ways. Perhaps not the usual way to discover EMD, but I’m grateful for it. Milne) and loved an extract from Delafield’s As Others Hear Us. Delafield because I’d bought a 1940 anthology called Modern Humour (featuring A.A. I started reading Richmal Crompton’s novels because I loved her William series and stumbled across Family Roundabout in Hay-on-Wye I started reading E.M. Milne, and these other two weren’t very dissimilar. I’ve written before about discovering A.A. I would have unhesitatingly rattled those off in 2002, because they were the three authors I had discovered for myself in my first ventures beyond obvious, in-print choices. When I’m asked who my favourite authors are, I often find myself immediately giving the answers I would have given ten years ago or more: A.A. ![]()
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