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Lucy brings the favourite characters of our collective childhoods back to life – prompting endless re-readings, rediscoveries, and, inevitably, fierce debate – and brilliantly uses them to tell her own story, that of a born, and unrepentant, bookworm.more She also disinters a few forgotten treasures to inspire the next generation of bookworms and set them on their way. She relives our best-beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. In Bookworm, Lucy revisits her childhood reading with wit, love and gratitude. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library or to spend her pocket money on amassing her own at home. With Charlotte’s Web she discovered Death and with Judy Blume it was Boys. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy, and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy, and play