Rereading The Borrowers by Mary Norton

For this episode, we revisited The Borrowers, Mary Norton's 1952 novel about a family of tiny people who live under the kitchen of a house in the British countryside. We were as charmed as ever by the ingenuity of the Borrowers, who have a dresser made of matchboxes and a teapot made of an acorn shell, but there was a layer of darkness in the story that we hadn't remembered. Mentioned on this episode: Other books in the series: The Borrowers Afield The Borrowers Afloat The Borrowers Alo...