Three years after writing The Borrowers in 1952, Mary Norton picks right up where she left off with The Borrowers Afield where our favorite trio are tirelessly trekking from Firbank to Perkin’s Beck in search of the badger’s set, home to the Hendrearies. May and Kate-quite by chance-are about to meet. But worry not for there is one soul who knows exactly what happened to our dear friends and it is that very same person that Mrs. But whatever happened to those poor Clocks? Last time we saw them, they had been smoked out of their comfortable home and left fleeing for their lives-never to be seen or heard from again. Leighton Buzzard, as you might recall, was the country town where Great Aunt Sophy’s house was and it was in that house, as you might remember, where underneath the kitchen floorboards lived the Clocks: Pod, Homily, and Arrietty. May slipped her a letter and said, “This will interest you, Kate, I think.” And indeed it had since that letter had to do with Leighton Buzzard. Since that time, Kate had completely pushed their memory to the farthest corner of her mind until one early spring day when Mrs. May told young Kate the story of the borrowers.
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