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The Secret Life of Books

The Secret Life of Children's Books

Episode 1: Five Children and It

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Samantha Bond reveals how a rootless childhood and terrible personal tragedy led Edith Nesbit to create a new kind of children's fiction, a blend of magic and realism. Show more

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