The Hearing Trumpet, is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who lives unhappily with her son Galahad and his family and dreams of moving to Lapland and travelling about in a vehicle pulled by woolly dogs. But her friend Carmella presents her with a hearing trumpet and she accidentally learns that Galahad has other plans for her – he’s plotting to send her to a retirement home. And that’s when her adventures begin.
"I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway." The not eating meat describes the character, but the reason why defines her.
"A report from Mother Maria Guillerma informed me of the following extravagant occurrence of which she was eyewitness through the ample keyhole of Dona Rosalinda's apartments. The keyholes later on became obscurum per obscurius after two nuns were blinded in one eye by a silver needle poked through the opening by the ever-perspicacious Abbess."
Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world. Here's a link to the Online Version, give it a read, we recommend The Hearing Trumpet
Selected by Madeline hall.