sovay: (Silver: against blue)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2021-07-31 08:45 pm (UTC)

Oh, cool. Thanks for the offer!

I trained as a classicist. I try to use my powers for good.

(in fact for Yuletide this year I wrote a crossover between a Mitchison book and a Townsend Warner book)

AAAAAAAAAAH.

But I've never read Jill Paton Walsh, so thanks for the rec!

You're welcome! She was a prolific author of contemporary and historical fiction in multiple periods and turned out to have written a pair of formative picture books from my childhood; I gravitated mostly toward her classical work, but everything I have read of hers—aside from the Sayers continuations, of which I found the first an interesting experiment and noped hard out of the second and the rest—has been well-done and worthwhile. Skip A Parcel of Patterns (1983) if you are not feeling up for a retelling of the self-quarantine of Eyam during the Great Plague of London in 1665, though.

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