A love-letter to children's books. 'Beautiful and moving... It will kickstart a cascade of nostalgia for countless people' Marian Keyes
Lucy Mangan is a columnist for Guardian Weekend magazine and Stylist, and the author of My Family and Other Disasters, The Reluctant Bride and Hopscotch and Handbags.
THE most wonderful, funny, clever, charming, evocative book.
*India Knight*
A book for people who love books, by a person who loves books.
Bookworms unite (or just sit in our separate corners and read!)
*Stylist*
A delicously nostalgic treat that will make you want to pull out
all those old favourites again
*Good Housekeeping*
Artfully evokes that particular magic of reading as a child…
Deliciously unrepentant, Mangan’s Bookworm makes a timely case not
just for how vital reading is, but also for rereading books as a
child, and how reading remains consoling, fortifying and,
sometimes, magical.
*The Sunday Times*
A wonderful romp through the pages of childhood, illuminated by
wisdom, humour and enthusiasm.
*Bernard Cornwell*
What Mangan does brilliantly is express the experience of reading
and articulate the emotional connections we make with stories. She
understands how books become entwined in our lives and help us make
sense of the world. You don’t need to have enjoyed the same books
as she has to recognise the pure, life-affirming joy of reading
that Bookworm celebrates so eloquently.
*The Observer*
Lucy Mangan has enough comic energy to power the National Grid...
We need this new memoir about her childhood of being a bookworm.
It's enchanting.
*The Spectator*
To read Lucy Mangan’s memoir of growing up bookish is to be taken
back to a time in life when reading wasn’t merely a gentle pleasure
or mild obligation but an activity as essential as breathing.
*Guardian*
Anyone who has ever preferred books to life will recognise Lucy
Mangan as a kindred spirit. Her moving, funny, honest and
superbly-written memoir about how childhood reading shapes our
personalities, memories and chances could not be more timely or
more needed in an age of library closures, embattled Humanities
teaching and Philistinism.
*Amanda Craig*
Lucy Mangan's passionate, amusing and nostalgic reflection upon her
favourite children’s books deserves to become as much of a classic
as the novels she revisits.
*Sunday Express*
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