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Sam Llewellyn website
Sam Llewellyn is a long-established writer for all ages – Little Darlings is his first title for Puffin. The novel is hilarious as it introduces the terrible Little Darlings, children who are capable of driving any adult to madness or despair! The anarchic humour, in the vein of Lemony Snicket and Philip Ardagh, gives this book its child appeal. The rich Darling family really are the family from Hell; their adventures are always fast-moving and surprising and the ghastly parents and terrible children will be remembered long after the book is closed.
THE BASICS
Born - Tresco, Isles of Scilly
Jobs - boatman, bass player, editor, conservation campaigner and journalist
Lives - Kington, Herefordshire
THE BOOKS
Sam Llewellyn’s story of the Darling family “is partly inspired, if that is the word, by my lifelong hatred of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan�?. This wickedly brilliant adventure will remind readers that reading is fun and not just the hard work it sometimes seems to be. Sam is now working on a sequel, possibly to be called Darling Darlings.
WHAT HE SAYS…
He gets his ideas from, “Talking to children and relations who come sailing on Lucille (Sam’s seven-meter sailing boat), reading other people’s books, watching people on buses. Oh, and sitting in my lofty turret, pondering deeply among the wheeling stars.�?
One of Sam’s favourite books is Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast, he describes it as “ vast, spooky and not ashamed to be very, very long.�?
Advice to writers: “Write two pages every day, rewrite the two pages you have written until you are completely happy with them – and be very lucky.�?
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Publisher
Puffin || Short Books