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It's also a fascinating insight in our country's way of life at the time it was written (the Forties I think).
Even I noticed that when I reread it about 10 years ago.
The girls behave very differently than the boys and there is a very rigid code of behaviour for children which feels like it existed 200 years ago. I'm remembering the series rather than just the first book, but I'm sure you'll find it in there anyway.
But if you do read it I think you will enjoy it. All the women I became very good friends with as adults, read it as children, remembered it and loved it. We'd all daydreamed about which land we wanted to find at the top of the tree and why. I knew it was only a story, but I did press my ear against all the large tres in The Field (now a housing estate) just hoping one might speak to me.
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