Posted by Mark D. on March 31, 2007 at 17:18:20 from 82.31.46.235 user Whiteshill.
In Reply to: Re: References to Swallows and Amazons posted by Rob Marshall on March 03, 2007 at 01:32:48:
Penelope Lively - Going Back
"Swallowdale is lying open on the sofa. I look at it longingly. If Clarice was not here that's where I would be - away on Wild Cat Island with Nancy and John and Titty and the rest of them.
"'I've read that,' says Clarice suddenly, and she fingers a book on the shelf - Coot Club, it is - and I see with amazement that she is longing too.
"And we read. We sit either end of the old squashy sofaand read and read in silence and we come as near as we ever will to liking each other."