- Publisher: Unicorn
- Year: 2023
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 240pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x156mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.7kg
- ISBN: 9781911397649
- Product code: 546923
Remembering Christopher Robin
New Hardback Illustrated
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AA Milne’s son grew up under the pressure of his father’s fame and the public’s attachment to the fictional character he had inspired. This biography follows Christopher from a shy and uncertain child, raised largely by a devoted nanny, through his education at Stowe and Cambridge and wartime service as a sapper, to his marriage, move to the countryside and career as a bookseller.
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This story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They were initially quite distant from him and his upbringing was left to a loyal and loving nanny. Unfortunately, this left Christopher Robin Milne terminally shy and lacking in self-confidence. Unable to escape from the shadow of his fictional self, he became an object of continued interest from a non-understanding public. His salvation started with being sent away to Stowe School, going to Cambridge and joining the Army in the Second World War as a sapper. After an unhappy and directionless time immediately post-war in London, he eventually married and, very successfully, ran a bookshop in the South West for twenty-one years. His life
was dominated by a love of the countryside, learned at his parents' country home, Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex, and much later in Devon. How he turned his life round, against the odds, is the subject of this biography.
was dominated by a love of the countryside, learned at his parents' country home, Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex, and much later in Devon. How he turned his life round, against the odds, is the subject of this biography.
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AA Milne’s son grew up under the pressure of his father’s fame and the public’s attachment to the fictional character he had inspired. This biography follows Christopher from a shy and uncertain child, raised largely by a devoted nanny, through his education at Stowe and Cambridge and wartime service as a sapper, to his marriage, move to the countryside and career as a bookseller.
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240x156mm
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