Helen Dunmore

Yeah, I love it.

So Helen Dunmore, who wrote the introduction to the Folio Society of this, she described her as a skull-faced, sinister figure of nightmare, and she's not wrong.

She almost is, is not human.

There's almost something, I don't know, demonic about her.

Probably during the war, but-

Well, you don't know, though.

Helen Dunmore in her introduction essay drew attention to that.

I was like, "Yes, I did miss that when I first read it." I had forgotten.

I mean, we have amazing authors.

We have Babette Cole, Helen Dunmore, Michael Foreman.

We have big names, as well as new people coming through from, you know, people who send us...

They send us awful things.