Posted by Peter H on June 22, 2007 at 11:36:10 from 86.130.131.192 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: What would Susan's story be? posted by John Giddy on June 21, 2007 at 13:32:21:
John makes a good logical point, but I agree with Adam that WD is 'Susan's book' for a very different type of reason. I remember first reading WD as a young lad and coming across the description of Susan shortly after John had abandoned the disastrous attempt to sail into the wind:
' . . . Susan's face, blotched and white, with wisps of bedraggled hair across her eyes, a face wet with rain and tears'.
I realised then that (a) Susan was growing up, and (b) so was I . . . .