In this third book, the Borrowers are now forced to leave their cottage-home after the departure of the gamekeeper and the boy. Arrietty is strangely happy. She is looking forward to the future, and a life to be lived away from the dark confining cottage.
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The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton
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About Mary Norton
Mary Norton was born in 1903 and brought up in a house in Bedfordshire, which was to become the setting for The Borrowers. First published in 1952, The Borrowers was an immediate success, winning the Library Association's Carnegie Medal. There followed four more Borrowers books: The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961) and The Borrowers Avenged (1982). Poor Stainless was the last Borrowers story that Mary Norton wrote. She died in 1992.
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