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He grew up on the east kent coast, primarily in deal, within a model modern familyfractious with parental separation, secret illegitimacy, alcoholism and genteel poverty between the ages of six and ten, he was raised in foster care, attended school in germany for a year, then went on to grammar school at age eleven. These life changing books made people rethink everything this book altered my attitude to the disabled and to people with cerebral palsy in particular. Following the lives of arthur and esther, who both have cerebral palsy, horwood delves into not only the communication challenge, but the culture of the disabled and the changing role of institutionalization in the 20th century. I love turning pages, holding a book in my arms, er, hands, and smelling the unique scent of that particular book. The series is also known as the book of silence, referring to the second series that makes up the duncton world. The willows in winter, horwood s sequel to kenneth grahames the wind in the willows, was published in 1994.
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