num_pages: 214
description: What would you find if you went back and reread all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this memoir. Re-reading and re-living these books, and investigating their literary origins and rich histories, Francis Spufford reveals what it was like to be an obsessive reader as a child. As the book unfolds, so too he gradually uncovers his own childhood and his unique reason for taking refuge in stories from a world full of unbearable knowledge.
language: English
title: The Child That Books Built
titlecomplete: The Child That Books Built
genres: Literature, Books About Books, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Essays, Biography Memoir, Writing, Unfinished, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 938
publisher: Faber and Faber