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“There’s a society that’s dealing reasonably well with its own affairs – not particularly well – and some children are born who appear physically normal, but who can communicate with each other…It’s never been filmed, and yet if you ask people of a certain age, ‘What’s your desert island book?’, lots of people will say The Chrysalids. It’s relatively short – my Penguin copy is about 190 pages, easy to read. It was commonly given as a book for teenagers to read in schools, because it’s got lots of issues that young people are interested in, the idea of the new generation. And it’s a great adventure story as well – with all these stories, we talk about the emotional resonance, but they’re all adventure stories. It was very, very widely read.” Read more...
Amy Binns, Biographer
