Raymond Brigg`s most extraordinary and most appealing book yet - a tender, moving, warmly funny tribute to his parents- Ethel and Ernest - now a major animated film starring Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn and Luke Treadaway
Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934. He is the author of the hugely successful children's books Father Christmas and The Snowman. These books have been translated into many languages and adapted into films, plays and TV cartoons. His other books include Fungus the Bogeyman, Ug, When the Wind Blows, Ethel & Ernest, a biography of his parents, and his latest, Time for Lights Out, a contemplation on old age, told through words and pictures.
Briggs has always had the ability to move his readers, but never
more powerfully than this.
*Guardian*
As our memory of pre-Niketown Britain fades, we should be grateful
that Raymond Briggs is so brilliantly equipped to remind us of what
we used to be, and why.
*New York Times*
Ethel & Ernest imparts, as the best novels do, the sense of lived
lives. It’s not too much to say you come to love these people...
Briggs’ book earns our tears. Ethel & Ernest is a just about
perfect miniature: small in scale, not in spirit.
*Salon*
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