The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows

A biography of the celebrated author of The Wind in the Willows.

He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the beloved River Thames. Forced to abandon his dreams of studying at Oxford, he was accepted as a clerk at the Bank of England where he became one of the youngest men to be made compan...