(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)the turn of the screw.
there's a radio dramatisation this afternoon of the original story - listenable to thereafter via bbc web site.
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)flora's played by lulu popplewell - older sister of freddie, boy star of peter pan.
miles is played by joseph tremain.
got his picture via google images from
happykennel.250x.com
go there at own risk.
buggy, pop-up infested site.
maybe even got viruses on it.
at any rate viewing it on this browser was an exceedingly unpleasant experience.
there's a brit novelist called rose tremain; perhaps joseph is related to her.
she's into boys.
here's what she said at book-club interview :
(shouldn't that read "there <b>is</b> now a group..."?!)
<i>...There are now a group of 'mystical boys' in my fiction. Perhaps they are the ghosts of the sons I never had!
But I believe in the idea that, sometimes, children can see or intuit things which the grownups, mired in their domestic reality, fail to see.
I think they can also have a sweet affinity with the natural world and find consolation in talking to small creatures, as Marcus does in Music & Silence.
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
I think I'm saying to the reader: "look and listen. Be silent. Try to apprehend the complexity of the world and what it is to be human in it..."</i>
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