SMH BOOKS - Key Persons

Dr Louise Joy, a Cambridge University academic, believes classic children's books, and the work they inspire, attract older readers because they give them things they cannot find in everyday lives, including direct communication, tasty home-cooked food, and tolerance towards eccentricity...(representing) 'a symbolic retreat from the disappointment of reality'.

Sandra Saer founded the Company in 1987 at Pear Tree Cottage, Watersfield, West Sussex, with publication of her own book: COLDWALTHAM: A Story of Three Hamlets. (Sandra is looking to buy back copies of her Coldwaltham book - rather like J R Hartley/'Fly Fishing' in the Yellow Pages ad! Does anyone have one to sell?)