The hidden roads : a memoir of childhood

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; and falling under the spell of Arthurian legend, among others. 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. In these luminous pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland, well-known poet and one of the country's most distinguished writers for children, visits the foreign land of childhood. A moving, beautifully-crafted memoir from a classic, multiple award-winning children's author.