![]() ![]() ![]() The game became all-consuming a quite glorious secret. It brought the children together, it made them feel a little more secure in a world that had, with their mother’s death, become horribly uncertain. It was the eldest child, Sebastian, who began the game of Knights of the Round Table. ![]() The house was big, the children were aloof, and so in fact there was little supervision at all. His children were supervised first by a much loved aunt and then by a succession of housekeepers. Their father, a Shakespearean scholar who had named each child after a character, coped by retreating into his study, immersing himself in the writing of a book in the hours when he wasn’t sleeping or teaching. ![]() In the early fifties the six Bell children lost their mother. Because border terrier people understand. I thought of my lovely Pip, who turned just as white as Kit Pearson’s lovely Poppy, and I told myself that a story of a large family of children who imagined themselves to be Knights of the Round Table was exactly what I needed. There are many things that can tip me towards buying a book when I am on browsing, and on this particular occasion that thing was an picture of an elderly border terrier, sitting on the lap of the author. ![]()
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