Posted by Peter Willis on 10/08/99 from 62.136.67.118 via proxy webcache14b.cache.pol.co.uk:
In Reply to: Re: Ransome in other author's books posted by Anne LeVeque on October 04, 1999 at 15:29:03:
Libby Purves' new novel 'Regatta' has a fairly substantial Ransome reference on page 167. The book is about a deprived inner-city child who gets fostered into a boaty community where she is initially completely bemused and out of her depth. The AR reference comes at a pivotal point. Her name incidentally is Anansi, which at a certain stage gets shortened to Nancy.
I think this answers the question of whether LP is familiar with AR.
The other, altogether slighter, reference is in a Neville Shute book, I forget which, in which the hero reads a chapter or two of Coot Club to his son one bedtime.