THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE.

THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE by CHARLIE MACKESY.

Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online - perhaps you've seen them? They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They sometimes even appear on lamp posts and on cafe and bookshop windows. Perhaps you saw the boy and mole on the Comic Relief T-shirt, Love Wins?

Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all. ... GoodReads' Blurb

A nice enough read and one that I'd of course heard about without, oddly enough, knowing anything about other than that it was, well, nice.

As it turns out not at all what I was expecting. Rather than a novel about a boy, a mole, a fox and horse it turns out that The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse was actually a collection of what I can only think to describe as being like those memes {you know the things I mean, those meaningful, sweet if often sickly words of comfort, wisdom, advice and inspiration} you see on the likes of FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest ... albeit that here they were wrapped up in a sort of narrative about four companions who, finding themselves journeying together, sharing their fears and vulnerabilities, their discoveries about love and friendship.

Not overly keen on the illustrations, some of which were done in pen and ink, others in tri-colours and I really struggled {goodness only knows how people with dyslexia etc might fare} with the {badly} hand writing type font {the author's own?} that was the text.