Happily, there are still quite a few Elizabeth Goudge novels I am yet to read and one of these is Towers in the Mist, described on the EG Society website thus: "Like all of Elizabeth’s work it is filled with the quiet optimism that all will be well, and the scent of nostalgia breathes from its pages as potent as violets after rain."
The latest in Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series, A Change of Circumstance, has just come out in paperback and that prompts me to perhaps go back to the very beginning and re-read the early books - I remember enjoying them a great deal.
The Oxford Book of Children's Stories, edited by Jan Mark and first published in 1993, is a collection spanning almost 250 years from The Story of Celia and Chloe by Sarah Fielding (1749) to The Convict Box by Nadia Wheatley (1992). I'm interested in the subject generally - "the historical progress of the form" - but was especially keen to get the book as it includes a story by my kinswoman Alice Massie. The Caravan Siege (c.1926) sits between pieces by Walter de la Mare and MR James, and is a charming tale of trust and tolerance in typical Massie style.
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