“WHO DOESN’T HAVE A THING ABOUT ISLANDS?” writes Robert Twigger on page one of his terrific new book. The way he sees it, they haunt our imagination as places of opportunity to escape our everyday lives and have new adventures.
In this, as he acknowledges, he has been influenced since boyhood by Arthur Ransome’s novels, where children get away from the adults and find freedom on the islands of the Lake District—all 36 of which he now sets
