The true story of the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh and his son, the real-life Christopher Robin, now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award–winning biography of A. A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the reader a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood. Goodbye Christopher Robin is a story of celebrity, a story of both the joys and pains of success and, ultimately, the story of how one man created a series of enchanting tales that brought hope and comfort to an England ravaged by the First World War.

本作の真髄は、癒やしの童話の背後に潜む「戦争の傷跡」と「名声の功罪」を解剖した点にあります。トラウマに苦しむミルンが息子の玩具から生んだ百町森は、傷ついた大人たちが求めた祈りそのものでした。虚像の少年が独り歩きする中、実在の父子が抱えた葛藤を綴る筆致は、あまりに鋭く切実です。 映画版が情緒的な美を視覚化したのに対し、原作は言葉の力で名声が私生活を侵食する深淵を鮮明に描き出しています。映像で魔法の風景を堪能し、書籍で魂の叫びを読み解く。この相乗効果こそが、世界中で愛される物語の裏側に潜む、愛と犠牲の真実へと私たちを誘うのです。