When will there be good news in the bookshop?

"She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is."

-Kate Atkinson

Stingray in the Bookshop

"For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world." - Angela Carter

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