![]() ![]() Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), Smith (1967, published in The New York Review Children’s Collection), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie Medal), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award). In all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. ![]() In 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. His father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. ![]() Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. ![]()
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![]() Today, we are focusing on the origins of the legend of Romeo and Juliet: ![]() How wrong I was! This research has really opened my eyes to much, not just Romeo and Juliet related, but with the life of Shakespeare, or the person who may have published under the name Shakespeare… but that’s another story (and thoroughly researched article) altogether. In fact, I assumed Shakespeare’s was the original. When you think of Romeo and Juliet, what first comes to mind: Shakespeare’s play, the 1968 film adaptation or one of the many beautiful paintings featuring the lovers? Or, perhaps, you recall sitting in high school English, Drama or Literature trying to decipher the archaic language while pretending to find the hidden meaning of it all.īefore reading O, Juliet, becoming intrigued and doing further research, I had little knowledge of the legend at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. ![]() One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors - until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.Įver the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. 'I defy you to put it down once you've started' Cynthia D'Aprix SweeneyĪfter Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. 'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris ![]() |