Commonweal, April 6th, 2001
Is there anything lovelier than discovering a really talented, even famous writer by chance? That just happened to me with the British novelist Leon Garfield. As I browsed a local children's bookstore, my eye was attracted to a cover, and then a stunning first sentence. I bought. I read. I read more. And then, as it happens, I heard about the jubilation in the children's book community: Garfield is back in print!
Although he wrote in the 1960s, Garfield's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century settings, and his plots charting the intersection of England's poor and her rising middle class, have ...
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