THE marmalade-loving bear’s final adventure, Paddington at St Paul’s, in which he is mistaken for a choirboy on an outing with Mr Gruber, is published tomorrow (Harper- Collins, £12.99). His creator, Michael Bond, died last year. ‘He was working on it very shortly before he died,’ explains his daughter, Karen Jankel. ‘He kept that magic touch right until the end. He always had to be writing, it was always his way, right through his life.
‘I feel so fortunate that his spirit lives on through Paddington,’ she continues, ‘who is a very important member of our family and, I hope, will continue to be so for a long time to come.’
Illustrated by R. W. Alley, as ‘Paddington’ stories have been since 1997, the new and final tale marks the…
