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.
I felt like this was written just for me, and I think everyone will
feel this way
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*
A witty and thorough history of reading for children from the 17th
century to the present day. Fiercely unsentimental and often funny,
it's a memoir that will strike a ringing chord with anyone who
spent most of their childhood glued to a book.
*Irish Times*
Deft, warm and beautifully balanced. Made me smile. Made me glow.
Made me think again and again.
*Jason Hazeley, co-author of the adult Ladybird series*
Funny, nostalgic and super-interesting… Warm, witty and a must-read
for every bookworm.
*The Sun*
The Guardian columnist has composed an enthusiastic love letter to
childhood reading, and the classic books that have shaped many
young lives, as well as providing a resource and guide on how to
build a children’s library
*Guardian*
Funny and engaging.
*Irish News*
Bookworm is for anyone who longed to be on Kirrin Island with the
Famous Five, slip through a back of a wardrobe into Narnia or will
always think fondly of the penis named Ralph in Judy Blume’s
Forever
*Red Magazine*
A warm, witty story about stories and the way they shape us.
*CultureWhisper*
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*
Enchanting.
*Spectator*
Joyful and heart-warming.
*Muddy Stilettos*
Entertaining and hugely engaging… An entirely inspiring read.
*Sunday Express*
… like a heated but enjoyable discussion with a best friend
bookworm.
*The Week*
A love letter to the books we all read as children.
*Metro*
[W]ise and witty… all the time Mangan has the ability to be
ceaselessly and apparently effortlessly funny
*Books For Keeps*
If you're a book lover of any form then you will almost certainly
get something from this book… you will look fondly back on the
books of your childhood too
*Nudge*
In Lucy Mangan’s Bookworm…childhood books are brought vividly to
life, as are the remembered pleasures of first encountering
them
*Times Literary Supplement*
Lucy Mangan's funny, warm Bookworm is personal and universal in the
way that the very best books are
*Den of Geek, **Books of the Year***
Beautifully narrated, Bookworm brings the favourite characters of
our collective childhoods back to life and brilliantly uses them to
tell her own story
*Psychologies*
An enchanting, nostalgic, comfort read
*Mail on Sunday*
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