Posted by Jenny Berki on April 10, 2007 at 19:26:18 from 77.98.7.42 user JennyB.
In Reply to: Another S&W mention in a novel posted by Prue Eckett on March 27, 2007 at 22:20:00:
'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' by Kate Atkinson (1995) has the following:
"... not the usual improving Bible tales she recounted rather wearily Sunday after Sunday, but a copy of a brand-new book, Swallows and Amazons, which her younger brother assured her is a 'jolly good adventure'. Although, as it turned out, the book would never be opened because instead Lolly Paton gave an animated impromptu rendering of Peter Pan in which she cast all the children as Lost Boys..."
Sadly, I read the whole book and the children never got round to reading S&A! The above scene is set in 1959, so maybe the author just picked a 'popular classic' of the day to be the unread book. Or maybe she's a huge S&A fan.