A Son of the Rock

I saw in Saturday’s Guardian that author Lynne Reid Banks has died.

I hadn’t known she had been a reporter with ITN in the 1950s. My first knowledge of her came when I read The L-Shaped Room and its sequels many years ago.

I didn’t read her again until last year with her novels about the Brontë siblings, The Dark Quartet, and then Charlotte, Path to the Silent Country.

Most of her work, including her best known book for children, The Indian in the Cupboard, passed me by I’m afraid.

Lynne Reid Banks: 31/7/1929 – 4/4/202. So it goes.