![]() ![]() He was right, I loved it and still read it and it’s sequel ‘Ride The Wind’ as an adult today. I was first given a copy of this book about 20 years ago from an old school friend who knew that I had always been a huge fan of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner and he thought this to be a similar novel. Although Norwich and its cathedral may have been the inspiration for parts of this book, it was the Fens that set the backdrop for most of his stories. It was during his time working as sub-editor on The Eastern Evening News in Norwich that he wrote his first novel, The Giant Under The Snow (1968). He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War on minesweepers and destroyers and afterwards worked as a journalist in the West Country and East Anglia. The contrast of the flat, rural landscape had a profound effect on him and inspired him to write many of his most popular stories. At the age of 12 his family moved to Wisbech from Jarrow in Tyne and Wear. John Gordon was born in 1925, (also known as Jack Gordon), gained fame as an English writer of adolescent supernatural fiction. ![]()
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