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I have just blued £30 on Nicola bloody Marlow

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Failedspinster · 21/04/2015 22:13

Help me. I'm addicted. By hook or by crook I obtained two Antonia Forest paperbacks at low prices. It was not enough. Now I've just bought another for thirty sodding quid I can ill afford, comforting myself with the knowledge that I can always economise on clothes.

I know I am not alone. Please tell me your stories of absurd expenditure of money and effort to secure a favourite.

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BroomstickOfLove · 13/06/2017 09:39

I had a teeny bit of a crush on Patrick at one point, although I would have detested him in real life.

Emerencealwayshopeful · 13/06/2017 07:59

archiveofourown.org/works/3231305?show_comments=true#comments

I don't think that links to the ML Giles one but I know it was on the archive of our own site that I read it.

annandale · 13/06/2017 07:03

Fair enough Grin are you ever afraid that Nocola would be one of them? Grin

BertrandRussell · 13/06/2017 06:58

Annandale- I am very old and come from a similarish background so I just may be projecting a bit. I knew a lot of arrogant young officers in my youth...........Grin

mrsmayitstimetogo · 13/06/2017 06:05

Is fanfic all on kindle? I've never read beyond the 4 main AF books published by Puffin in the 80s...

Emerencealwayshopeful · 13/06/2017 05:41

I'm missing end of term and the historical ones. But i do love so much about these books.

Someone shared a fanfic about Giles marrying Mary-Lou (chalet school) and that sent me down a rather lovely rabbit hole. Highly recommend it.

annandale · 12/06/2017 22:49

Ooh really?? I didn't feel I knew enough about him to hate him!

BertrandRussell · 12/06/2017 22:09

It's Giles I can't stand............

annandale · 12/06/2017 21:54

YES I think Patrick is a total dick. I hate him. I think because I can't stand the feeling that Nicola might actually fall for him and be trapped. Get away from him Nicola and run away to sea.

[tumbleweed]

BroomstickOfLove · 12/06/2017 21:47

I started reading The Charioteer earlier today, and have barely put it down. It's very good. And I'd forgotten how very recently things have changed.

Bloodybridget · 12/06/2017 00:35

NotCitrus thanks so much for pointer to Trennels on Dreamwidth.

Asmoto · 09/06/2017 22:49

Wow, Jinglebells. If you can find the letters, I'd love to know what they say!

HumphreyCobblers · 09/06/2017 22:46

That is truly amazing Jinglebells99. Do find the letters and tell us what they say.

Jinglebells99 · 09/06/2017 22:42

I was addicted to Antonia Forest's books and wrote to her twice In the Eighties and she replied both times! I remember I did ask her a couple of questions about plot which she answered. Would have to go and find the letters though.

HumphreyCobblers · 09/06/2017 22:38

I find that one a little hard to understand in places, I am not clear on the politics of the time so I miss some of the references.

I think this was her first historical one, wasn't it?

I absolutely would read the rest.

Asmoto · 09/06/2017 22:35

I enjoyed The Last of the Wine but haven't read any others yet; sounds as though I should.

HumphreyCobblers · 09/06/2017 22:00

I never tire of Renault. I read them on rotation at least once a year.

OrlandaFuriosa · 09/06/2017 18:03

I adored Renault but haven't read for years: will I still like her ?

( see I contributed to this discussion years ago under another name..,)

Asmoto · 09/06/2017 18:03

I know it's a zombie thread, but couldn't resist boasting that I have a full set of Forests! It took me years to collect them, and I didn't finish until GGB republished the rarer ones. If only AF had completed the book she was working on before she died. We will never know what Nicola said to Esther the term after RAH Sad.

BroomstickOfLove · 09/06/2017 17:53

You know what? I've just realised that Funeral Games upset me so much that I convinced myself that The Persian Boy was the third book and there was a book between Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy which I had read but didn't own.

I've borrowed The Charioteer from the library , but haven't started it yet.

HumphreyCobblers · 09/06/2017 16:51

Only just read it, it has slipped my radar until very recently.

It is an excellent book.

That looks interesting Broomstick.

I just re-read Fire From Heaven and The Persian Boy. I can't bear to read Funeral Games again.

BroomstickOfLove · 09/06/2017 16:46

archiveofourown.org/works/9021568

BroomstickOfLove · 09/06/2017 16:43

Thanks for resurrecting the zombie.
To continue the fanfic theme, I read a lovely non-Marlowe Mary Renault fanfic the other week, and I'm sharing it to anyone who might like it. It's the Alexander Trilogy set in an Oxford college rowing crew.

BertrandRussell · 09/06/2017 16:40

Have you read The Charioteer? I read it when I was about 13, and it informed a lot of my thinking.

HumphreyCobblers · 09/06/2017 16:33

Oh it IS! So is The Praise Singer.

I love all of them with a passion.

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