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    Come Away

    I can accept the concept of both these tales having origins from the same family and then diverging into separate stories over time and retelling. For instance, although Alice carries around a big rabbit, she’s also given a tiny bell and told by her mother that it’s really a fairy named Tinker. The children have an overbearing, rich aunt Eleanor (Anna Chancellor) who wants to see they are brought up properly and she’s depicted as the Red Queen. The inciting incident of older brother David’s drowning is both a reason for younger brother Peter to feel it’s his duty to take his brother’s place and grow up quicker. And at…