Rereading Our Childhood

Rereading February's Road by John Verney

Mary Grace McGeehan and Deborah Kalb Season 2 Episode 2

Mary Grace introduces Deborah to John Verney’s 1961 novel February’s Road

Other books by Verney:

Friday’s Tunnel (1959)
Ismo (1964)
Seven Sunflower Seeds (1968)
Samson’s Hoard (1973)
Going to the Wars (1955)
A Dinner of Herbs (1966)

Also mentioned:

The Arm of the Starfish (1965) by Madeleine L’Engle,

Verney’s illustrations.

A post on the blog Clothes in Books.

The illustrations of Edward Ardizzone.

An obituary of Verney in The Independent.

A post on the Farnham Trust’s website about Verney. 

Jojo Moyes on Verney in a Daily Mail interview.

Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone (1965).

Edits to the American editions of the Harry Potter books.

Deborah recommends the Madeleine L’Engle. She and Mary Grace discussed L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time on a previous episode.

Mary Grace recommends Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Climate.

You can find Deborah’s author interviews on Books Q&A by Deborah Kalb, and Mary Grace’s adventures in the 1920s on her My Life 100 Years Ago.

This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.

Podcast website at rereadingourchildhood.com

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