Thank-you for the welcome! Which was nice, for someone arriving out of the blue.
I seem to have attracted an entire fandom and I don't mind at all!
And her ability to paint pictures with words is right there, too.
Yes; she's not just readable on the level of plot-pull. I like her style and she's very good at emotional detail expressed visually as well as explained to the reader.
I found the ending a bit "Huh? what happens next? Is it what I think it is?" but I suppose even DKB couldn't go there in the 1920s.
I really couldn't read it any other way. Which may be one of the other aspects that reminded me of Rosemary Sutcliff: I linked it with Marcus, Esca, and Cottia at the end of The Eagle of the Ninth (1954). Broster is beginning to feel like the missing piece in a puzzle of writers I grew up on. I wish I could find any one of them talking about her.
She obviously enjoyed herself immensely while writing it.
Fortunately, at least in my experience, it transfers to the reader.
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I seem to have attracted an entire fandom and I don't mind at all!
And her ability to paint pictures with words is right there, too.
Yes; she's not just readable on the level of plot-pull. I like her style and she's very good at emotional detail expressed visually as well as explained to the reader.
I found the ending a bit "Huh? what happens next? Is it what I think it is?" but I suppose even DKB couldn't go there in the 1920s.
I really couldn't read it any other way. Which may be one of the other aspects that reminded me of Rosemary Sutcliff: I linked it with Marcus, Esca, and Cottia at the end of The Eagle of the Ninth (1954). Broster is beginning to feel like the missing piece in a puzzle of writers I grew up on. I wish I could find any one of them talking about her.
She obviously enjoyed herself immensely while writing it.
Fortunately, at least in my experience, it transfers to the reader.