Henry Sugar and Six More! I adored that book--not sure I loved every story, but it was my reference point for a perfectly balanced anthology for a long time.
...I wonder whether it will make any sense to my daughter one day. For me it was a discard unwanted by my four-years-older cousin, who didn't read much (she also gave me Green Gables and Swiftly Tilting Planet, FFS), and in trying to figure out at age eight why she had given me these books so readily, I wondered even then whether too much time had passed for her.
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...I wonder whether it will make any sense to my daughter one day. For me it was a discard unwanted by my four-years-older cousin, who didn't read much (she also gave me Green Gables and Swiftly Tilting Planet, FFS), and in trying to figure out at age eight why she had given me these books so readily, I wondered even then whether too much time had passed for her.