Eddie Muir wrote:I'm also a big fan of H.E. Bates and have read most of his novels and short stories, Kate Mary. My favourite of his books is Love for Lydia.
I've just finished reading Robert Westall's superb 1990 novel, The Kingdom by the Sea.
I love The Kingdom by the Sea and Love for Lydia, Eddie.
floragord wrote:How marvellous to know there are other Elizabeth Goudge fans on the Forums, I love her work and have about everything she wrote, collected painfully over the years from book searches and in Hay-on-Wye, most people look blank when they hear the name.
You might already know that J. K. Rowling loved Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse as a child. In The Bookseller she said, "The Little White Horse was my favourite childhood book. I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot. It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine."
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
Thank you Daisy. I certainly will try to read The Bird in the Tree first. I always have a feeling of slight regret if I read books like this in the wrong order, even I really enjoy the first one that I do read. Looking forward to it. As you said, it's lovely to know that some many people really love her books.
Rob Houghton wrote:I'm currently reading 'The Secret of Cliff Castle' by an author called Mary Pollock...
One of my favorite stand alone EB's, Rob.
Just try not to notice that EB uses the term "queer" ca. 38 times throughout the book instead of replacing it every once in a while with "odd" or "strange"...guess the use of a synonym dictionary was not as common way back then when EB wrote this book?
Chrissie
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
Alfred Hitchcock
While cat sitting I have been reading The New Girl and Nancy by Dorita Fairlie Bruce where we get to grips with an new girl who is a heiress and rather spoilt with it to begin with gradually reforms her character, gaining acceptance.
Enjoying an excellent book by Robert Benson called 'Come rack, come rope'. It's all about the destruction of life and family in late Elizabethan England due to religious persecution. Such a good read and so little known.