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Joan Aiken writing at her very best was a perfect companion. Well travelled, cultured, with a wealth of personal experience, and the ability not just to tell a gripping story, but to draw the reader in to the very process of writing. What she loved was to hold her audience in a […]
This is so intriguing! You are so mean to tease us with the wealth of styles, settings, characters, tones and audiences that Joan writes in, about and for. And here am I still hoping to acquire a copy of the out-of-print The Cockatrice Boys!
You also draw attention to Joan’s life as a traveller, Greece here, Spain for the Felix books, Nantucket and Wales for example for Dido stories, all far cries from the common view of her as a quintessentially parochial English writer (albeit one with extraordinary imagination). Desperate now for an authoritative biography…
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm! I never know if I am overdoing it, as obviously I am a committed fan – but as you say, there is such a wealth of material, let alone background, that I am keen to share (and get some feedback about!) so that it is not lost, and I guess this is a good way of dipping a toe in the water…
No, I don’t think you’re overdoing it: there’s more to Joan than just the Wolves Chronicles and it’s important to put it out there.