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Watkins, Flora

Flora Watkins lives in a farmhouse in north Norfolk with her family, a brace of basset hounds and six chickens named after the Mitford sisters.

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Gone Away!

Flora Watkins on Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Can you recall the novel that took you away from the nursery bookshelves and into the realms of Grown-Up Books – a gateway book, if you like? I happened upon mine after months of resisting efforts both at home and at school to get me to read something more challenging. Until then, as a pony-mad child without a pony, I’d sought refuge in my tattered copies of thrilling stories like Show-Jumping Secret and We Hunted Hounds by the Pullein-Thompson sisters. Then one day, entirely of my own volition, when I was perhaps 12 or 13, I reached for the blue, cloth-bound copy of Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
20230601093013 Flora Watkins on L. P. Hartley, SF 78

A Familiar Country

Flora Watkins on L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between

In a cardboard box I put the essential objects we would need in our rented cottage, until we got the keys to our new house in Norfolk: my infant daughter’s stuffed monkey, some paperwork, Cash’s name tapes for the boys’ new schools and the books we were reading at bedtime – Five on a Treasure Island for the boys, and for me my mother’s tatty copy of The Go-Between, a still of Julie Christie from the film on the cover, which would date it to around 1971.

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