The MP and author on reading her political rival’s memoir, the wonders of Robert Macfarlane and the joy of Barbara Kingsolver
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes terrified me as a child. It’s the macabre story of how a young girl, Karen, is condemned to dance for ever as a punishment for wearing red shoes to church. She ends up having her feet chopped off to make the dancing stop. As someone who loves to dance, this made me desperately sad. I’ve been very wary of “fairy stories” ever since.
If I thought about it at all, I certainly had no idea that it could be at least as awe-inspiring as what lies above it. Macfarlane also has a wonderful way of putting things into geological perspective: 100,000 years ago, rivers ran across the Sahara; in around 5bn years, “the Earth will fall dark when the sun exhausts its fuel”.Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. What 13-year-old girl wouldn’t want to be Jo March?with its five different voices, has me coming back time and again.
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