![]() ![]() Reading this wonderful piece of children’s literature on a sunny autumn day, I experienced a genuine thrill of menace. When Stephanie returns, deeply traumatised, Porter embarks on a quest to find Stephen and makes some unlikely friends along the way, including a man who’s devoted his life to understanding the mysteries of Lud’s Church. His hero, Porter, discovers the layers behind words and how they structure reality while also delving into Middle English and the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. ![]() Sedgwick is fascinated by language and folklore, and particularly philology. Some even start to forget that Stephen ever existed. Everybody acts strangely, as if a spell has been cast. Two children, Stephen and Stephanie, clamber in with all the rest of their peers, but then don’t emerge again. At its centre is a school visit to Lud’s Church, a chasm in a rock formation where one of the rocks resembles a giant face. ![]() M arcus Sedgwick’s Dark Peak is set in a swelteringly hot summer in the 1970s. ![]()
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