How Joan Aiken fought to defend the wolves of Willoughby Chase

For years the children's books magazine Books for Keeps published a series of interviews with authors – there was one of these 'authorgraphs' in each issue. Here is the wonderful Joan Aiken from issue 39 (July 1986): " The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first book to make money for me. I’d actually done two chapters just before my husband was ill but had put it away. Abelard Schuman, who’d…