The Clock Strikes Thirteen

"Tom's Midnight Garden," the illustrator Susan Einzig and the nature of memory

The cover illustration for “Tom’s Midnight Garden”, watercolour on paper

When you are my age, Tom, you live in the Past a great deal. Your remember it; you dream of it.

Friday afternoons were eagerly awaited, for this was the time that Mrs Green would read “Tom’s Midnight Garden” to our class. One chapter each week…