Remember that children's picture book with the sea-ghosts I was mentioning a few weeks ago? I found it. It's Birdy and the Ghosties (1989); I recognized the cover illustration immediately. What I didn't remember was its author, Jill Paton Walsh. Who is also responsible for The Green Book (1981), which
rushthatspeaks and I both read in elementary school, possibly under its reissue title of Shine, and A Parcel of Patterns (1984), which traumatized us a few years later. Who knew? At this point, I'm just waiting to see what else turns up out of her bibliography—oh, wait, Fireweed's (1970) hers, too. Yes, I have been recommended Knowledge of Angels (1994). What I can't figure out is how she seems to have wound up best known for her Sayers fic.
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- 1: And me? Well, I'm just the narrator
- 2: This is what I get for being civilized
- 3: I'd marry her this minute if she only would agree
- 4: Open up your mouth, but the melody is broken
- 5: Is your heart hiding from your fire?
- 6: Everybody knows the world's gone wrong
- 7: The dusty light, the final hour
- 8: Reading your mind is like foreign TV
- 9: When you turn a solemn promise to a blatant lie
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