![]() ![]() The four Linnet children – Nan, Robert, Timothy and Betsy – are living with their grandmother and her fearsome companion, Miss Bolt, while their father is abroad. “The Runaways” was originally published under the title “Linnets and Valerians” and the story focuses on the intertwining lives of those two families. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children’s books in 1946 for The Little White Horse.She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s through the 1970s.” Wikipedia says: “Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels, short stories and children’s books as Elizabeth Goudge. I confess this is the first Goudge I’ve read – but I don’t think it will be the last. Rowling’ as apparently her book “The Little White Horse” is Rowling’s favourite. As I mentioned recently, this book was the winner of the Hesperus Press competition to find a lost children’s classic – and they’ve certainly come up with the goods here! Goudge is often mentioned nowadays as ‘the author who inspired J.K. ![]()
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