The other day, at our local bookshop a young man came up to me and said sir tell me what is the secret to happiness?
It was hardly the time for homespun philosophy as a pretty young thing was trying to take a selfie of the two for us, so all I could say was singing book for young readers it would make any writer happy. But I'm not a writer he said I'm a psychiatrist. Well then make your patients happy was all I could say .
For over sixty years since his award winning debut The Room on the Roof was published Ruskin Bond has charmed and entertained us with character ranging from the animal world to human to ghostly spirit and his magic touch has often presented to us a world unhurried tucked away in hill and valley.
What does it mean to be an octogenarian love by the young and old alike? To be synonyms with the smell of pinewood and rambling mountain path? In short what is it that makes him Bond ? This book weave together a selection of Ruskin Bond essay and writing to bring to the reader the Rick tapestry not his Life peppered as it is with delightful eccentricities and a geniality rarely found.