”Perhaps the best tribute I can pay The Twitnam Summer is it made me want to pick up Gulliver’s Travels again.
“She makes the book sound fresh and exciting, a product of its time and an enduring lesson in the follies and hypocrisies of the human condition.”
Dominic Sandbrook reviews Hester Grant
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In The Twitnam Summer, Hester Grant brings to life the heady months when Jonathan Swift and his circle wrote scathing satires and joined crowds to see the ‘Wild Boy of Germany’