The first book I read by myself, rather than at my mother's proverbial knee, was The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne. I was around six...
My stoner friends were into Tolkien's The Hobbit, but that didn't interest me. What Peake created was darker, more intricate, at once more sinister and more beautiful than anything else I had read up to that point.
Margaret Drabble on John Cowper Powys
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