by Mary Norton
The story was okay. It was pretty simple and straightforward. In a lot of respects, it’s pretty predictable: secret group of people, one of the members longs for the outside world, meets an outsider, the outsider messes things up. See? That basic plot has been played out many times in many books. Th...
I enjoyed the story of the Borrowers itself - in spite of being a good thirty years too old for it, I suspect, it was delightful and read well - but the framing parts of it bring down the rating; the beginning felt far too abrupt and so was the ending.