The story starts with being lost. “I’m lost,” said the boy to the mole. An unlikely inter-species friendship is formed and a journey begins.
The star of this year’s Christmas schedules is the animated adaptation of Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. After posting drawings alongside heartfelt and heartening messages on social media, a book following the adventures of the boy and the other animals he meets became a phenomenon.
Published in 2019, it spent 100 weeks in the Top 10 of the UK bestsellers list. The timing was serendipitous. Many of those 100 weeks spanned a period where a reminder of the essentials in life – love, kindness, fortitude, self-acceptance – was the comfort and consolation people in lockdown longed
