But not quite yet.

I suppose that this experience, too - the thickly concentrated mixture of embarrassment and pleasure that Dusty Answer provokes - is typical of adolescence and so it seems an appropriate response to a novel which continues to enthrall me, not only as an evocation of 'the mysterious enchantment of childhood' but as a powerful study of that later, more complex period when nostalgia for childhood momentarily overlaps with the dawning of adult sensibilities. (Introduction)