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“Back in 1983, I had a few months to spare between finishing my degree at Cambridge & beginning my PhD at Warwick. The only thing I remember about that summer is that I spent much of it writing a novel for children called Fragment of a Glass. It wasn’t a very original piece of work: basically just an imitation of CS Lewis’s Narnia series. 4 children staying at their grandparents’ house during the summer holidays find their way into a parallel world & have a number of fantastic adventures there. A few years ago I dug the manuscript out of storage to see if it was suitable for reading aloud to my own children. I could see that it didn’t work, as a whole, but there were things about it that I liked. I liked the way that... the children grew up during the course of the narrative: they started out at the age of about 8 or 9, & by the end of their story they were in their late teens... The other thing I liked was the central narrative device: the children find a fragment of broken mirror which reflects a world other than the one they are living in...From the beginning, I knew that I wanted it to be an illustrated book, & I didn’t have to look far before finding the perfect artist as a co

Who reads The Broken Mirror : a Fable?

Author

Jonathan Coe, Chiara Coccorese (illustrator)

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783524198

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Children'S