Posted by David Brooks on May 16, 2000 at 16:35:43 from 216-064-124-149.inaddr.vitts.com:
In Reply to: The Next Title posted by Merry Andrew on May 08, 2000 at 06:41:37:
I (like, I think, many S&A fans) have also fantasized about a sequel. Unlike many of the comments above, though, I *would* be interested in the S&As as adults - specifically, how they coped with the inevitable disappointment that adult life would bring after such a perfection of a childhood.
Some comments I've read from AR make it sound like he had a bit of this problem himself: The holidays on the lake were so wonderful that everything paled in comparison.
I envision the book as set in the early 1950s, when World War II's shadow still stretches over everything. A group of seven healthy people of that age would have lost at least one person during the war. The question is, who would have died?
Peggy as a Red Cross nurse during the Blitz? John on a destroyer? Nancy as a spy parachuting behind enemy lines? (I'm getting carried away - but there's no way she wouldn't have been in the thick of things.) Dick could have worked with the Enigma code-cracking group, and Dot would have become a wartime correspondent. Not sure about Titty...
Wish I could write - it sure would be fun.