![]() ![]() During the Second World War she was evacuated to New York and struggled to support herself and her four children while her husband was in the Navy. For a year she acted at the Old Vic before getting married and going to live in Portugal. Mary Kathleen Norton (1903-92), spent much of her childhood in a late Georgian house which later became the model for Firbank Hall in THE BORROWERS. As exciting as it is alarming, the story of the tiny family living beneath the floorboards of a country house. ![]() Not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. ![]() Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of light brown jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, spine very slightly faded, some faint spotting to lower page edges. 'The Borrowers' series was first published in the UK by Dent in the 1950s, this is the paperback text of 'The Borrowers' and 'The Borrowers Afield' first published in 1964, bound up by Dent in hardback format with dustjacket, and reprinted in 1966. This book has a somewhat complicated publishing history. Dent & Sons Ltd / The Aldine Press, London. ![]()
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