Huh - I think in my head I have mixed up the telemovie with the earlier series, as I knew Imelda Staunton had been in one but thought it was the series. No, I haven't seen the telemovie (and would be interested!).
Yes, definitely try one of his others - I've read Two in the Bush but couldn't tell you anything about it other than the title, and the collecting ones really aren't all that exciting as narratives. I would start with either My Family and Other Animals or his children's book, The Talking Parcel, although the boy might like The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium, which is a collection of short stories that has one gothic horror in it that I am still disturbed by. I also really liked Rosie is My Relative, a novel about a young man who is left an elephant by an eccentric relative, but I haven't re-read it since my late teens and I think the sexism fairy may have visited since then.
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Date: 2016-04-10 02:40 am (UTC)Yes, definitely try one of his others - I've read Two in the Bush but couldn't tell you anything about it other than the title, and the collecting ones really aren't all that exciting as narratives. I would start with either My Family and Other Animals or his children's book, The Talking Parcel, although the boy might like The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium, which is a collection of short stories that has one gothic horror in it that I am still disturbed by. I also really liked Rosie is My Relative, a novel about a young man who is left an elephant by an eccentric relative, but I haven't re-read it since my late teens and I think the sexism fairy may have visited since then.