Re: PM review on Amazon - what a splendid review!


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 28, 2010 at 09:00:29 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: PM review on Amazon - what a splendid review! posted by Peter Ceresole on February 27, 2010 at 19:59:34:

Umm. I take the review at face value and having read it again I think the reviewer is right.

Nancy does seem to look forward to, and enjoy, playing the part of hostess, arranging the guests bedrooms, choosing the meals with Cook and so on.

The Picts are viewed by the natives with a mixture of tacit support and fear of the consequences of discovery.

The GA is indeed an invader. Nancy chooses to collaborate with the invader whilst organising a secret resistance. As a study of a population under occupation, this book is not bad at all!

Nancy does not pretend to be a pirate; this is a much more grown up Nancy than the Peter Pan-ish Nancy of "Secret Water", where one may sense that John has moved on and she has not.

Many grown ups were indeed abroad when the book appeared. There were lots of children missing a parent and with the other parent unaccustomedly at work for long hours. Like the Ds, many of the first readers of The Picts and The Martyrs were thrown more on their own resources

It all makes sense to me.


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