We Read The Borrowers

from Eleanor & Alasdair Read That · host Eleanor Morton & Alasdair Beckett-King

She's small. She's ginger. She's very hard to get out of your house. No, not Eleanor Morton. We're talking about Arietty Clock, the tiny teenage protagonist of Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers. The Borrowers are a diminutive people who love stealing almost as much as they love the British class system. But has this tale of curtain-climbing social climbers aged well? Find out in Series 2 of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That. Buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/readthat_podcast

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