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Originally published in a very limited printing in England in 1951 thisenchanting rediscovery is set in a small villa among the dunes of Le Toquet. Itis the story of two energetic mischievous and sensitive children and theirencounters with a privileged set of adult visitors who are in Normandy for theseason and who could well have stepped out of a novel by P.G. Wodehouse. Thismagical novel which takes place between two world wars will remind readers ofDodie Smiths I Capture the Castle and Gerald Durrells My Family and OtherAnimals.Michael Burn will be 95 when Childhood at Oriol is released. As a reporterfor The Times he covered both the abdication of Edward VIII later the Dukeof Windsor and the faked Hungarian trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. «
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