May 19th Thursday. Sheila arrived safely. Joan gone off this morning. Do miss her.
… gone back to wintry, grey and cold … (Diary, 18/5/88)
May 18th Wednesday. Sheila due to arrive this evening. Gone back to wintry, grey and cold, and the change making my ears ring to distraction. In Brigid Harrod’s too. I’ve just been on the phone to her.
Rosemary Sutcliff “did the honours for Roman Britain” but Elizabeth Laird’s top ten books about “tough stuff from out there”, now!
From the Guardian Books website:
What does a good novel do for you? Make you laugh? Make you cry, gasp, clutch the pages, miss your stop on the bus? Well, yes. All of those things. But I like a novel that also illuminates a corner of the real world that I hardly knew existed, and brings it to life.
Good historical novels do that. Geoffrey Trease hard-wired ancient Greece into my imagination and Rosemary Sutcliff did the honours for Roman Britain. Read More »
… white lilac in the hall, smelling of pure essence of nostalgia … (Diary, 17/5/88)
May 17th Tuesday. Into Chichester to have my eyes tested and see about new glasses; and in to the Shopwyck Nursery on the way home, to get a couple of shrubs and two more of the Busy Lizzies for the garden (courtyard). So hot! Really high summer; and the whole countryside white with may. Have white lilac in the hall, smelling of pure essence of nostalgia.
Letter from Rosemary Sutcliff to a reader in 1987 | Have you such a letter?
Jane Shuttleworth has sent me a copy of a letter she received from Rosemary Sutcliff when she was younger. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 