After having seen multiple enthusiastic reviews for this children's book from 50 years ago (thank you ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
melannen and cahn), I had to get my hands on it myself, and it was well worth it! Such a good book.
It's historical fantasy set during the time when Mary Tudor was queen of England, which is not an era I see getting a lot of attention from fantasy novels, and it's well grounded in its particular time in history. The book is about a young woman, Kate, who is exiled to a place that has a lot of dismissed-as-superstition rumours about unsettling connection to magic and Faerie.
And this too is great, the writing is wonderfully evocative, and the fairies of the book are appropriately Other while still managing to be sympathetic in some ways. ( I guess this is spoilers? )
Anyway. Excellent book, love this for me, highly recommended to others for whom this kind of thing is your thing as well. Oh and it's a Newbery award winner too!
melannen and cahn), I had to get my hands on it myself, and it was well worth it! Such a good book. It's historical fantasy set during the time when Mary Tudor was queen of England, which is not an era I see getting a lot of attention from fantasy novels, and it's well grounded in its particular time in history. The book is about a young woman, Kate, who is exiled to a place that has a lot of dismissed-as-superstition rumours about unsettling connection to magic and Faerie.
And this too is great, the writing is wonderfully evocative, and the fairies of the book are appropriately Other while still managing to be sympathetic in some ways. ( I guess this is spoilers? )
Anyway. Excellent book, love this for me, highly recommended to others for whom this kind of thing is your thing as well. Oh and it's a Newbery award winner too!
