One Morpurgo would be a treat. Having Clare and Michael to myself for an hour, even over Zoom, is sheer luxury. We’ve barely said hello before the laughter begins. They have been a couple for 50 years. They finish each others’ sentences, gently correct decades old stories and chuckle a great deal.
Michael is, of course, the much beloved children’s author. Clare, his wife, is the brains behind their charity, Farms for City Children. Since its inception in 1976, the charity has given more than 100,000 children the chance to truly understand where their food comes from. The down payment for the organisation was the money Clare inherited from her father, the Penguin Books founder Allen Lane.
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