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Description'If you went too near the edge of the chalk pit the ground would give way . . .' . . .Which is exactly what happens to Barney, who lands in a cave in the middle of the rubbish dump - and that's when he meets Stig. Author descriptionClive King was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1924. When he was a baby his family moved to a village called Ash, near Sevenoaks in Kent, which is the setting for Stig of the Dump. He went to local schools, then King's School, Rochester and Downing College, Cambridge. During the war he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and later joined the British Council. He now lives in a cottage in Norfolk, and has three children and several grandchildren. |