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Creating her own period of alternate history gave Joan Aiken the freedom to exercise her endless imagination, but also provided her with the opportunity to use a variety of stored information from her wide ranging reading and her life-long fascination with all kinds of study. These elements, combined with an absolutely riotous ear for dialogue […]
Loved The Whispering Mountain, especially as I now live in West Wales and this is set on the coast of Cardigan Bay and inland, in this alternate world. I am so impressed by Joan’s thorough research and immersion in historical periods before writing her novels, Wales for this title, South America for The Stolen Lake and of course Spain for the Felix trilogy.
I see that you’re describing it as a prequel to the Wolves series, but I’m still looking for clues to support my theory that it could be set during the course of Limbo Lodge and before The Cuckoo Tree, especially as Owen Hughes seems intent on looking for his father towards the end of The Whispering Mountain and is continuing his search in The Cuckoo Tree!
One day I shall have to commit myself to a “Wolves” timeline, and it’s going to be very tricky indeed…!
Prince Davie Jamie Charlie Neddie Geordie Harry Dick Tudor Stuart is mentioned in Whispering Mountain as having a baby (also a Prince Davie) who has to be fifteen or so by the time Is goes looking for him in the mines of Holdernesse, and he also has to be single again and available as a possible husband for the Lady Adelaide in the prequel of Midwinter Nightingale which takes place thirteen years before… in fact almost as confusing and convoluted as an Aiken plot! We should definitely put our heads together sometime!
Oh dear! I can’t postpone returning to Wolves chronicles and my notes much longer, can I? Confusing and convoluted, as you say!
I would love to see a “Wolves” timeline, should you ever create one! The Whispering Mountain was given to me by a dear aunt, in a packet that also included Anne of Green Gables and The Jungle Book. (Such riches!) The print in The Whispering Mountain was tiny and quite hard going, but I was fascinated by Owen’s world and his book.
** The vocabulary that was obscure to her as a small child only fired her imagination, and she was determined not to underestimate the ingenuity of her readers by talking down to them. **
Yes. As a child I appreciated that, and it’s one of the many qualities that made me love her books.
What a great selection, and books that influenced Joan too! The Jungle Book was one of Joan’s favourites, and her Canadian mother brought her up on many of those girls’ classics from her own childhood – and I was passionate about them too. They set a standard for inspiring and ‘improving’ reading which has been hard to beat!