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The yellow brick road takes us to the Lakes
The Guardian
|November 20, 2025
Most people come to Keswick for the mountains and cream cakes.
For 13-year-old Dorothy (Nimi Spiff), they are the reason she wants to get out. What need for scenery and pink icing when she could be in the hubbub of London?
Grieving for her mother and fantasising about her absent father, she is determined to escape to the capital for Christmas. But a Lake District storm is brewing and, after making a break through the upstairs window of her aunt and uncle’s house, she is propelled along a different route.
This story is from the November 20, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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