EG Make-Believe by Elizabeth Goudge

If you are ordering this from outside the UK please ensure you check the correct box for post and if you are in the US and have not ordered before please send a separate email with your cell phone. Make–Believe was a collection of eight short stories about the du Frocq family, set on the Island (based on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, where Goudge’s mother was born and grew up) in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Originally published in different anthologies, they were collected together in one volume in 1949. With these short stories, we have two extra short stories, also featuring the du Frocq family, ‘The Governor’s Garden Party’ and ‘The Birthday Party’, both only published in magazines around 1937—1940. The du Frocq family consist of four girls and a boy, their father and mother and their pet animals and the stories are told with that engaging blend of charm and humour of which Elizabeth Goudge is so practised a master. John Gough, who discovered ‘The Governor’s Garden Party’ and ‘The Birthday Party’ and who is a real Elizabeth Goudge expert, will be writing our introduction to Make-Believe. The short stories in the GGBP edition of Make-Believe will be Make-Believe The Well of Saint George Rescue on the Island The New Moon Picnic with Albert Doing Good The Governor’s Garden Party The Birthday Party The Foresters’ Ride Midnight in the Stable Make-Believe will be published in June / July. 22 May the text and illustrations have been scanned in and the book is now having its first proofread.