All Booked Up

<p>Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, <em>All Booked Up</em> invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book.</p><p>Opening with <em>Five Go Off In A Caravan</em>, the very first full-length novel that the author read, and ending with <em>Miss Benson¿s Beetle</em>, a recently admired book, you¿ll encounter beloved classics such as <em>Rebecca</em>, which marked the author¿s teenage years, as well as reflections on <em>The Light and the Dark</em> during her college days. Along the way, enjoy reflections on learning to read, teaching others to read, becoming a vegetarian, falling in love, motherhood, music making and much more.</p><p>Whatever the author did, wherever she went and whoever she met, books were always at the heart of it ¿ this memoir will appeal to anyone who finds solace and joy in the world of reading.</p>