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The Borrowers Avenged
by Mary Norton
My parents gave me the set of four Borrowers books when I was a child and I loved them dearly. I can't remember now if I read any of them to my children - I read the first one to the grandchildren and they weren't particularly engaged so I didn't persevere with the series. This year, in my attempt to de-clutter, I decided to read them all one last time and then move them on. In the process I discovered this 5th book - written 20 years after the 4th.
I have no idea what was happening in the author's life, but between The Borrowers Aloft (#4) and The Borrowers Avenged (#5) she only had published a Borrowers short story (Poor Stainless) and a separate novel - Are All the Giants Dead? - the blurb for which does not draw me in. But somewhere in the intervening years she clearly decided to draw the borrowers to a settled ending. Which she did very nicely, while still leaving room for the reader to imagine various different futures for these great characters.
The one thing I don't like about this book is the title. I mean yes, the baddies get their comeuppance, but the borrowers were never trying to avenge themselves - they were just trying to find a safe place where they could life free.
Anyway, I'm very glad to have found this book and read it. It's a much more satisfying conclusion to the seriew.
I have no idea what was happening in the author's life, but between The Borrowers Aloft (#4) and The Borrowers Avenged (#5) she only had published a Borrowers short story (Poor Stainless) and a separate novel - Are All the Giants Dead? - the blurb for which does not draw me in. But somewhere in the intervening years she clearly decided to draw the borrowers to a settled ending. Which she did very nicely, while still leaving room for the reader to imagine various different futures for these great characters.
The one thing I don't like about this book is the title. I mean yes, the baddies get their comeuppance, but the borrowers were never trying to avenge themselves - they were just trying to find a safe place where they could life free.
Anyway, I'm very glad to have found this book and read it. It's a much more satisfying conclusion to the seriew.