Reading while I should have been studying for medical pathology finals! This book belonged to the daughter of my flatmate's pharmacology professor so naturally I borrowed it and still have it. Excellent escapist stuff about children running away to live in the woods and survive through their own knowledge of nature like so many junior Ray Meers. Reminded me of Enid Blyton's " The Secret Island". Being a keen bird watcher myself I especially enjoyed the Honey Buzzard chapter. I was reminded of this book while listening to a Radio 4 programme about the author, who simply lived for shootin' and fishing. He wrote books about carp fishing and "The autumn road to the isles", which I'd like to read, as well as doubling as a French sex symbol and film star in the 1950s and 60s (probably a different BB - Ed.). Scraped through the exam so that was ok too.