Re: Great Northern Hostility


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Posted by Adam Quinan on June 26, 2003 at 04:16:34 from 66.185.85.76 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: Great Northern Hostility posted by Marcus Andrews on June 26, 2003 at -1:41:23:

I came upon Peter Duck as the first one and read the others out of order at intervals over the next few years. I don't recall ever really disliking any of them, though I have my favourites.
I prefer the Lakes books and Great Northern? to the others and Swallowdale was for years the only one I owned and therefore re-read occasionally.
When I started re-reading all of them again as an adult, I found it harder to enjoy the Norfolk books Coot Club and Big Six and Missee Lee, partly because I had not got a geographical or literary framework for them as I had the others. By then I was familiar and fond of the Lake District and sailing in the (Inner in my case) Hebrides and Peter Duck fits in well with Treasure Island and my knowledge of the south coast of England, We didn't mean to go to sea is a great sailing story and I was a sailor by then.
I had hardly ever been to Norfolk or East Anglia or China so I didn't find so much to resonate with my experiences in those books as much.
I don't know why but Secret Water breaks the pattern and I remember the thrill of recognising it on a map, I never knew that it was a real place, but it was an interesting story.


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