I'm reading 'Patrick Melrose' by Edward St Aubyn, and there is a scene where a toddler boy gets hurt, and asks his mom for 'Raggie with a label', which she gives him. It goes as follows:

"'Raggie with a label,’ he sobbed. She handed him a Harrington square with the label still on it. A raggie without a label was not just unconsoling but doubly upsetting because of its tantalizing resemblance to the ones which still had labels"

It's probably a toy or at least a thing, because later he 'grew quiet, clasping Raggie and sucking his thumb with the same hand'.
I think it's set in late 80s – early 90s (no mobile phones, no internet, the main character flies Concorde about a decade before his kids are born)

I found out with Google there was a children TV show called 'The Raggy Dolls', and I thought probably the toy in question is somehow connected to the show, but there wasn't any mentions of Harrington square (it's is a real place in London, isn't it?) I'm confused


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