![]() ![]() As I’m sure you all know it tells the story of the three Fossil girls, Pauline, Petrova and Posy, each of whom has been “collected“ by great uncle Matthew (GUM) and deposited with his niece Sylvia in a large house in London. It was first published in 1936 and reading it now I have to wonder how much of it was wishful thinking on Streatfeild’s part. I’m not sure why I was so fond of it as a child, because the world that was being described was completely alien to me perhaps that’s why I found it so enticing. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know Ballet Shoes. I thought it would be interesting to consider how the work of a writer for two contrasting audiences might be seen to both differ and to bear similarities and Streatfeild proved to be an excellent choice in this respect. ![]() I have just spent a very pleasant long weekend in the company of Noel Streatfeild, first rereading her children’s classic, Ballet Shoes, and then exploring for the first time her adult novel, Saplings. ![]()
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