This is not a misery memoir, not sensationalist and not a celebrity memoir. In these luminous pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland, well-known poet and one of the country's most distinguished writers for children, visits the foreign land of childhood. From nights spent listening to stories told by his composer father and going to the 1948 Olympics through to idyllic cycle rides and discovering the first thrill of girls… these pages are full of anecdote, observation, and the old made new. This is also a book about budding self-awareness, the meeting-place of actuality and imagination and the ways in which a writer may draw on the quarry of childhood. Above all, The Hidden Roads revolves around the sanctity and splintering of family, and the bonding of brother and sister, and is steeped in the landscapes and layers of England.
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A moving, beautifully crafted memoir from a poet and classic, multiple award-winning children's author. First memories as a war-baby; starting a museum; being coached at Lord's; living above the spring line below the great chalk cross at Whiteleaf in the Chiltern Hills, and roaming in the beechwoods; holidays on the north Norfolk coast; French exchange visits; falling under the spell of Arthurian legend… Kevin Crossley-Holland uses observation and anecdote, insight and humour to build up a fascinating picture of a particularly English kind of upbringing. Interwoven with memorable descriptions of family life and friendships, and the anxieties of boarding school life, is a touching story, sensed by the young boy and pieced together more fully by the grown man, of how underlying family tensions led to a greater division in later years. As well as being a memoir, this book is also an important commentary on how a writer may draw on the quarry of childhood.
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