I came out of my room to go down and have breakfast and a woman approached me and said, 'you must be the author of one of the Alice in Wonderland follow up books. I gave it to my nephew and he did not put it down having read the whole thing at one sitting'. I did not tell her that I hadn't got a clue what she was talking about but acknowledged gracefully and said that it was a pleasure. I had a...

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