![]() ![]() At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn't know: his father's name. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo's shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. ![]() Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. ![]()
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