The main character of the story, Griselda, was a girl I found myself liking and empathizing with from the beginning (though no apparent reason for empathy existed). Which, again, is a feeling I had as a child when I read those really good books. I loved the atmosphere and all the ‘British-ness’ of the story it made me long to travel inside the pages and locate myself at that very same time and place. From the very beginning of the story, a very familiar and heartwarming feeling engulfed me and even though I hadn’t read the book before, the entire experience felt so nostalgic, like revisiting an old friend you haven’t seen nor spoken to in years. I was really excited to read this book, mainly because of the nice comments I had read about it, but also because I love such tales of fantasy and adventure as this one. However, thanks to a lovely challenge I discovered too late and also thanks to my beloved library that had a copy of this book, I was able to read it despite the delay. I didn’t have the opportunity to read it as a child, since it had never been translated into my first language, Greek (at least it hadn’t when I was a kid). ‘The Cuckoo Clock’ is one of the children’s books I discovered fairly recently, due to a review Kirsty had once written on Goodreads.
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