Loving April
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This issue's cover artwork for Philip Pullman's Northern Lights is by Stuart Williams. Pullman talks to BfK's interviewer Geoff Fox. Thanks to Scholastic Childen's Books for their help in producing this January cover.
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Loving April
This is my book of the month. Set in the 1920s, it is an exploration of conflicting class standards and surface morality in spite of which flourishes a touching love affair between a public school boy come down on the world and a strong willed deaf and dumb country girl, cast as the lascivious village idiot. The characterisation is sure and compelling, the pace speedy. Burgess elicits such sympathy for Tony and April that it is almost tangible. It is a bit adult in theme and incident so most suitable for older readers.