The ChildrenMelissa Albert, Bloomsbury, £18.99THE opening line of Philip Larkin’s poem This Be the Verse (“They f*** you up, your mum and dad”) seems uncannily accurate in relation to the offspring of children’s writers, particularly those who feature in their parents’ stories.

ANDY HEDGECOCK enjoys a novel for adults (by a writer of children’s fiction) that examines the fatal impact of a parent’s literary imaginings

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