Posted by Roger Wardale on February 14, 2012 at 05:55:03 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: Reality and the Reader (more on Peter Duck etc) posted by Peter Ceresole on February 14, 2012 at 23:39:07:
Thank you for your kind remarks, Peter. It's lovely to be RE-read!
Thank you Peter for your kind comments: to be RE-read is a fine compliment!
One of he most interesting aspects of AR study is to discover the motivation for each book, whether it be PD, CC or BS. With CC it was a wish to write about the Broads themselves and with BS it was a desire to try his hand at a detective story.
i have tried to pin down the appeal that BS holds for me: I cannot help liking the D&Gs quite a lot more than Tom and here they are at the centre of the narrative throughout; the underdogs of Horning society . . . the community and the riverside village of Horning are so well captured . . . the pike episode and the eelman visit seem to me to be AR at his best.
CC is a restless book, always on the move but in BS, AR created a world it was possible to grasp when young — Horning, the ferry, down river to Ranworth with a glimpse only of life further afield. And of course Dot is the heroine.