Posted by John Wilson on May 11, 2002 at 05:57:18 from 202.154.130.95 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: Olivia Fitzroy posted by kate Crosby on April 27, 2002 at 13:41:13:
Yes, In “Wandering Star” Sandy Stewart from Runival, Skye goes, reluctantly, to stay in Sussex with two girl cousins he does not know (who have horses) and his Aunt Alison. His uncle Major Giles Savile offers him a cigarette when he picks him up - when I was your age I was smoking! Giles is against the rumoured smuggling in the area. But Sandy meets Fergus and the fishing boat “Wandering Star” from Skye, and Sandy & cousins get a trip to Brittany, for watches, brandy etc. The book
has at the start Kipling’s Smugglers Song, and at the end “Rarsaidh 1952”.
Books by Olivia Fitzroy in the National Children’s Collection in
the National Library, Wellington NZ are:
(The) Hill War (Collins, 1950) dwgs by Shirley Hughes
Wandering Star (Collins, 1953) dwgs by Sheila Rose
Island of Birds (Jonathan Cape, 1954) ill. by Raymond Sheppard
Wagons and Horses (Collins, 1955) dwgs by Mary Grant
Hunted Head (Jonathan Cape, 1956) ill. by Raymond Sheppard
Other titles of hers are:
Orders to Poach
Steer by the Stars
The House in the Hills