5/21/2023 0 Comments War horse by michael morpurgo![]() Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of the Economist magazine Intelligent Life. The biographical portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful. ![]() How did this supremely unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he now haunted by regret? In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo’s life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories. Michael’s own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. The story of a Devon horse sent to fight on the Western Front has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Steven Spielberg, meantime, has made it into a film. Five years on, it continues to play to packed audiences of all ages in the West End and New York, and later this year it will tour America, as well as opening in Toronto and Australia. In 2007, Michael’s novel ‘War Horse’ was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre. ![]() But it is not only children he holds in his thrall. Through books such as ‘Private Peaceful’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’ he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived nor condescending. ![]()
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