Goodbye Christopher Robin, Ann Thwaite
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Goodbye Christopher Robin
A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: Ann Thwaite

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2023


Synopsis

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the listener a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood. Goodbye Christopher Robin is a story of celebrity, a story of both the joys and pains of success, and, ultimately, the story of how one man created a series of enchanting tales that brought hope and comfort to an England ravaged by the First World War.

Author Bio

Ann Thwaite is a Whitbread-Prize-winning biographer and children's writer. She was born in London and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's, Barnet, and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has written several major biographies. A. A. Milne: His Life won the Whitbread Biography of the Year in 1990. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University (National Centre for Research into Children's Literature). She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia and a D. Litt from Oxford. She lives in Norfolk with her husband, the poet Anthony Thwaite.

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