The Runaway Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper pastoral feel showing leaves and

pastoral feel showing leaves and climbing columbines and hollyhocks

illness and poverty she identified with the dispossessed

One of the illustrations by David Gentleman for Plats du Jour

and in the 2009 film starring Emily Watson

And it is true

The Runaway Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper pastoral feel showing leaves andILLUSTRATED BY GWEN RAVERAT AFTERWORDS BY ANNE HARVEY AND FRANCES SPALDING 240pp ISBN 9781903155264 This 1872 novel by a mid Victorian poet and novelist is about a girl named Clarice, living with her widowed father and her governess 'in a charming home at a convenient (railway) distance from the city.' One day she finds a girl of her own age hiding in the shrubbery. She is Olga and 'there is no question that she is the liveliest child character in