The Borrowers Aloft
core novel 1961 The Borrowers
Record
| First published | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.01 (4,612 ratings, collected 2026-09-06) |
| Page count | 193 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780152047344 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Having reached Little Fordham, the miniature model village that seemed to promise an ideal sanctuary scaled perfectly to their size, the Clock family soon finds their new home threatened by the Platters, the human couple who operate a rival model village and come to see the Borrowers as a valuable and exploitable discovery. Arrietty, Pod and Homily are captured and imprisoned on display in an attic belonging to the Platters, cut off from the freedom and community they had only just begun to enjoy. Aided by two sympathetic humans, Mr. Pott and Miss Menzies, who take an interest in their welfare, the family must rely on ingenuity rather than direct confrontation to plan an escape from their captors. Their ordeal ultimately forces them to abandon the sanctuary of Little Fordham altogether and resume their search for a lasting, permanent home elsewhere.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Borrowers
- Series: The Borrowers core; position 4 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 4 of 5: previous The Borrowers Afloat (1959) · next The Borrowers Avenged (1982)
Sources
- The Borrowers (novel) - Wikipedia
- Mary Norton (author) - Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers_Aloft
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