Hookland 5/2/20 1:02:36

@jckmrphy Re-reading it as an adult, it feels like a foreigner writing England – not always a bad thing, far from it – and one of two things feel off to me. The language now feels very cod.

Hookland 5/2/20 1:21:21

@jckmrphy The foreigner/outsider either sees something we natives are too myopic to understand, or they walk the Dick Van Dyke Highway. For me, it’s a book that does both and as such, not one I go back to.

Hookland 5/2/20 2:02:10

@AlastorMoopy In Hookland shows, the ghost baby is usually the avenging spirit of the baby murdered by Punch. However, that’s not always the case and sometimes the ghost baby is a spirit adopted by the childless Judy.