The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood

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In these pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland visits the foreign land of childhood. First memories as a war-baby; starting a museum; being coached at Lord's; living above the spring line below the great chalk cross at Whiteleaf in the Chiltern Hills, and roaming in the beechwoods; holidays on the north Norfolk coast; falling under the spell of Arthurian legend Above all, The Hidden Roads revolves around the sanctity and splintering of family, and the bonding of brother and sister, and is steeped in the landscapes and layers of England.

Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy was translated into 23 languages, and has sold over one million copies worldwide. He has written and presented many BBC radio programmes and is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society of Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

'Evokes a picture of a daily life in Britain that now seems sadly far away . . . a pleasure to read' The Tablet. * The Tablet * 'A lovely, poignant book, not wasting a word and evoking place in a deep way' Archbishop Rowan Williams. * Archbishop Rowan Williams * 'One of the joys of this very joyful book... is the evocative recreation of a middle class childhood of the 1940s and 1950s before television and electronic games' Independent on Sunday. * Independent on Sunday * 'An absorbing account of where, why, and how a variously talented writer gradually came to realise that that was what he wanted to become' Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *