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“... 1948, the benefactor’s motives are transparent. As transparent is the Smarties Grand Prix, which Jill PatonWalsh won for her children’s book, Gaffer Samson’s Lunch, in 1984: Nestlé’s want to associate a product which is bad for children’s teeth with one that is thought to be good for their minds. The Encore ...”

“... publishers feel unconfident, which may or may not explain their unwillingness to bring out Jill PatonWalsh’s Knowledge of Angels, which she eventually published as a private venture, though, as John Sutherland pointed out in the LRB, not without powerful American backing and a great deal of experience of her ...”

“... In​ Jill PatonWalsh’s novel Goldengrove (1972), set shortly after the Second World War, the adolescent heroine, Madge, goes on holiday to Cornwall. She falls a little in love with a professor of English literature who has been blinded in action, and reads aloud to him ...”