When The Wind Blows
By Raymond Briggs
1982
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Jim and Hilda Bloggs are a kindly working-class couple who live on the outskirts of town. Based upon Raymond Brigg's own parents (see his other book: Ethel and Ernest) they're both kind and soft-hearted souls - mildly befuddled by the world around them: a world that just so happens to be on the brink of nuclear war. Written and drawn in his celebrated cosy-middle-englandish fashion - this is a warm inviting book that will draw you as close as it can before it sticks in several knives fashioned from bleakness, horror and despair. There are laughs and small funny joys along the way - but the story is packed like a black hole and allows no escape from it's message of the follies of mutually assured destruction.
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Further reading: Ethel and Ernest: A True Story, The Tale of One Bad Rat.
All comments welcome.
