Except I never seemed to be able to borrow anyone's Jean Plaidy. She seemed always to be bursting out of schoolbags, tumbling out of lockers and concealed under desk lids. However, I never really had a desperate longing for a Jean Plaidy. Somehow, the very name sounded so.... sensible.
Now - for all of my life - no, really! - I've been haunted by a scene from an Anya Seton. I'd been reading the book under the covers in the dorm. Why has this particularly Anya Setony moment stayed with me? Daughter (tumbling yellow hair) views the body of her beheaded father (father?). There he lies in his coffin, smaller than she thought he would look, with his head reattached. The join at the neck is hidden by a ribbon, lightly marked with just a few rust-coloured bloodstains. Why the rust-coloured bloodstains on the ribbon should have stayed with me my whole life, I just can't say.
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Anyway thinking of Bags I Read That After You, I did a Wikipedia Anya Seton look-up. The novel is Devil Water - Jacobite Rising - Earl of Derwentwater - Charles Radcliff beheaded after 1745 Rebellion - daughter Jenny (tumbling yellow hair) by Secret Marriage. With a good wail of Northumbrian Pipes. There it all is! Back under the covers, Munch, it's nearly lights out! Then you'll have to go and read it in the loo, whoops, "down-the-end".
I'm so sorry I couldn't supply you with the missing two "Jalna", Frances. My godmother would have been delighted.
Other AS titles I'd forgotten; the rather soppy Green Darkness, The Winthrop Woman and Avalon.
After Gerrie (gma) had put me into a Georgette Heyer mood with a Facebook message, I had a Regency day from then on. It's amazing how many men, just innocently strolling around, whom you can imagine in breeches if you're in the mood. But not a CH-days passion for me.... I don't think we had her in 6's House library? I may be wrong.
Sorry, Mazo de la Roche, it's off to the Oxfam shop with you!
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