![]() ![]() A few years later came the doors into Narnia, the Secret Garden and Wonderland, Bilbo Baggins’s ‘perfectly round’ green door with its shiny yellow brass knob ‘in the exact middle’, the door into the Yellow Dwarf ’s home in the orange tree, and the dark door into Bluebeard’s bloody chamber. Aged about 4, I suppose, I passed through the small, latched door in the hillside, into Mrs Tiggywinkle’s flagged kitchen, filled with the ‘nice, hot, singey smell’ of ironing, busy and reassuring. ![]() ![]() When the Clock Struck ThirteenĪ lot of the stories I loved most as a child involved doors. A garden that everyone told him doesn’t exist. Thirteen? When Tom gets up to investigate, he discovers a magical garden. Lying awake at night, Tom hears the old grandfather clock downstairs strike. ![]()
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