The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

FYA Photo-a-Day 2 - Childhood Favourite (and why it made my day today)

This is a picture of my daughter with the favourite book of my childhood: The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo.

It is a book that swept me away, that I re-read well into adulthood and which still moves me to this day.  But it is also my favourite because of the memories it holds of a hot summer day, a lo…