For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s description in Tristan and Iseult of Iseult’s hair as “the colour of brambles when the sap rises in them in the springtime” has stayed in mind for TRIG in Ireland.
I looked out for that the spring after I first read it. I’d never noticed before how beautiful brambles are when the sap rises in them in the springtime. It’s an extraordinary colour.
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ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
The link you’re using there has “latest=1” in it, and will therefore always point to the last page of the conversation. If the conversation continues to grow, my post will no longer be on the last page. For a generating stable links, I created this form.
You want http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F2082070?thread=7462392&skip=40#pi50
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I have altered the post – thanks
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