Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and Womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. Now, in Bookworm, Lucy brings these worlds and the favourite characters of our collective childhoods back to life, uncovering a forgotten treasures along the way, and poignantly, wittily using them to tell her own story -- that of a born, and unrepentant, bookworm.