Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Like the dude in the epigraph, Peter Dickinson loves doing manual labor. Seriously. Let him build your house. (Source.)
Dickinson came up with the idea for The Ropemaker after his wife, author Robin McKinley, told him about a dream she'd had. He found it difficult to figure out how the magical and normal worlds would coincide. (Source.)
Saranja, the snarky girl in the epilogue, gets her own story in Angel Isle. (Source.)
When asked how much he resembles the Ropemaker, Peter modestly said, "Only a bit of a very idealised self, if anything." (Source.)