A Gorgeous Intro

I am editing (hence my silence and my plotting to bombard this website with posts about my recent endevours once finished!), but I just wanted to share this gorgeous intro with you from one of my favourite novels — Tuck Everlasting. You see, when I edit I like to skim a few books whose writing style I admire in the hopes that it might influence my own writing.

See the extract below by Natalie Babbit for yourself:

The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who w...