Alison Wonderland

In my pre-school years, I always believed that the  girl who fell down the rabbit hole and the story of her adventures was called Alison Wonderland, and I remember a sense of disappointment when I discovered that Alice wasn’t  actually my namesake.

Later, of course,  I read the story and its sequel  for myself and forgot that connection I had felt with Alice. Then, a few days ago I picked up a Tweet about a book called   Alison Wonderland by Helen Smith. I hurried over  to her blog where she was running a free book draw, and lo, I am one of the lucky winnners. I must say I can’t wait for the book to arrive which from the reviews sounds most intriguing and Alison maybe even  a candidate for our next book group meeting (on the theme of humour).

All in all it feels like a lucky week, and so I am off to enter another competition  for a foxy little book by Linda Leatherbarrow called Between the Lines.

I reckon I’m a dead cert to win it!