The Borrowers Afield
core novel 1955 The Borrowers
Record
| First published | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.06 (13,094 ratings, collected 2026-09-06) |
| Page count | 224 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780460881562 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Continuing directly after the first novel, Kate learns the rest of the Clock family's story from an acquaintance of her aunt after the Borrowers are driven from their home in the old English house. Forced into the open countryside, Arrietty and her parents Pod and Homily must adapt to a far harsher existence, facing natural hazards, hunger and exposure with none of the shelter or salvaged comforts of their old home beneath the floorboards. They are aided by Spiller, a resourceful wild Borrower accustomed to surviving outdoors, and by Tom Goodenough, a boy living in a nearby cottage who proves sympathetic to their plight, even as the family is briefly captured by a Romani man who discovers them. Amid these hardships, the Clocks eventually cross paths with relatives they believed lost, deepening the sense of a wider, scattered Borrower community beyond their own household.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Borrowers
- Series: The Borrowers core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mary Norton
Notes
- From the series record (The Borrowers): Core Canon = all 5 Borrowers novels, a single continuous closed sequence published 1952-1982.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Borrowers: position 2 of 5: previous The Borrowers (1952) · next The Borrowers Afloat (1959)
Sources
- The Borrowers (novel) - Wikipedia
- Mary Norton (author) - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers_Afield
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