Posted by Peter Ceresole on August 21, 2008 at 17:55:22 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Favorite Scenes posted by Jock on August 21, 2008 at 17:37:16:
And my favourite, which I've quoted too often here to quote it again, is also from PM, JC 1948, p.26, when the Ds settle down to sleep after arriving at Beckfoot.
I'm sure it expresses AR's own thoughts about arriving back in the Lake District and Lanehead when he was young.
But I do agree that AR's drawing the parallel between the personalities of Nancy and Maria Turner is one of the mature pleasures of this late book.
I feel that PM is the real final book in the series. GN is all very well and has some good moments, but for my money PM is where he pulls the threads of his characters together. His love of the Lake District and his involvement with those particular characters- the Ds and the Amazons- finally say all he had to say.