Despite the thing I am going to complain about later on, Hilary McKay is the contemporary children’s author I most wish had been writing when I was a little girl. When I’m sad, the books most likely to cheer me up are her Casson series (the first one is Saffy’s Angel and yes, you should read it immediately). Her latest, Love to Everyone, is an offshoot of her Binny series (which, yes, you should read immediately), the story of three children growing up in Edwardian England and then World War I. (Love to Everyone is called The Skylarks’ War in…
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