A Refuge of the Elect, a Tower of Dreams

Earlier, we were talking about the book Super Infinite, the biography of John Donne by Catherine Rondell. Until now, she’s been better known as an acclaimed writer of children’s books.

One of them is called The Girl Savage, which draws on her childhood in Zimbabwe. And the other one is called Rooftoppers, and it’s about a girl who discovers a group of orphaned children living on the rooftops of Paris.

And that book happens to be informed by Rundell’s fascination with climbing on rooftops herself. You can Google pictures of Catherine Rundell walking along rooftops where she’s not supposed to be at Oxford University.

She loves getting up high and looking down at the world. That sounds fantastic.

Usually when people talk about exploring Paris, they talk about Paris underground. There are all these tunnels and caves and things, catacombs.

Yeah, it’s definitely overground. She sounds like a fascinating person.

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