Some Secrets crack under pressure
When it’s Ruskin Bond writing children’s fiction – scattered with facts and anecdotes from his own childhood – and the background is his beloved Dehra Dun, the expectations are unreasonably high. That being a given, a book like Secrets, a collection of seven short stories – all vying to create the Bond magic in their own right, with elements ranging from innocence to romance to thriller and detective drama – disappoints on several counts.
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