Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Annas Book
By (Author) Fynn
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
18th July 2005
4th April 2005
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
942.15084092
Paperback
320
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 21mm
170g
Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her. Anna and the Black Knight introduces us to Mister John, a veteran of World War I and local schoolmaster, who was to have a profound effect on Anna. Anna's astonishing capacity for looking at things from fresh perspectives, and her fascination with mathematics and Mister God, stands her in good stead as her life is opened up to new things, such as school, priests and motor cars.
This sequel also includes the full text of Annas Book, reproductions of her own letters and writings. Her artless and transparent conversations speak to the heart and are recorded using her own unique and colourful spellings. The book is again illustrated throughout with Papass unequalled drawings.
The explosive individuality of Anna is not sentimentally touching but sometimes almost frightening. I hope that a new edition will introduce a new generation to this formidable and astonishing figure. Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
The identity of Fynn remains mysterious.Vernon Sproxton, in his foreword to Mister God, This Is Anna writes He is who he was. He is pretending to be nobody other than himself. But a very real and permanent part of his being is Anna.