Do you love K M Peyton?

[FrannyandZooey]

Well, do you???

Of Flambards fame?

ooh yes i did love those. but they did flambards on radio a little while ago and it wasn't very good - expect they cut it too much.

FLAMBARDS????

Well, I mean, yes, she did write them, but no, I was thinking of the superb series inc Fly By Night, The Team, The Last Ditch, the Pennington trilogy, the Jonathan Meredith stories, and Marion's Angels.

They are so wonderful, I fancied wittering on about them for a while with some fellow afficionadoes.

If you don't know them and you like really affecting and intelligent teen fiction, or your children do, get hold of them somehow.

flambards yes-love love love.
started reading the books as series was on when I was at boarding school and didnt always win the fight to watch that channel (despite scratching a few eyes out!) so had to read the books to keep up
Never knew there were others-will investigate ASAP!

i'm pretty sure I rezad the pennington ones and loved them

Pennington was the football playing policeman thumping Beethoven playing boy

Others feature horses. A lot.

About 3 zillion times better than Flambards.

Aah, Patrick Pennington (swoon), Ruth, the one who was kidnapped (Jonathan?) and the horsey gang, fabbo ace books.

beethoven rings a bell but policeman!!??

He thumped policemen

I couldn't be arsed to do hyphens

Lio you have it

and J Meredith quite too

tis ringing a bell, did he garden?, the policeman thumping one?

ah right! that's more like what I remembered. Thought you meant he thumped out beethoven.

so manly yet so sensitive

Nope

did he?

nope

he swam and had long hair and played the harmonica and got his gf with child and played the piano stunningly

but no gardening as I recall

"So manly yet so sensitive"

Oh YESSSSSS

Ruth's horse was called Toadflax something. And Ruth got her period on the day of some big event and someone else rode her horse and she was jealous because the rode him better than she ever could. But it was all wonderful. And there was Peter someone. McNee?

And Pennington played Rondo Capriccioso in assembly. And all through my first pregnancy we called the bump Ludo, but dh still doesn't know it was because of Ruth and Pat's baby, Lud (for Ludwig). God, how bad is it to have SUCH a major crush on a fictional talented bad-boy .

he wanted to take care of his hands??
was there a canal?

oh crikey, ludwig - yes!

I only ever read the Flambards series, which I loved. I haven't read any others, but it's possible that I'm just too old if they were published after Flambards. I only read the last book of Flambards when I bought the series for DH's niece because it was published after I'd grown up (it wasn't as good as the first 3 I don't think).

Toadhill Flax. It was Peter who rode her horse, Toad, because he was Peter's horse first and he always rode him much better anyway

What did they call it? The old Capritch?

He is the BEST romantic hero ever, though, tons better than Darcy or Rochester even

Oh read them bram, everyone read them

I just reread the whole darn lot and they were FAB, they just get better and better each time you read them

yes swimming yes taking care of his hands

Clarissa threw the MUG at him when he rebutted her advances

oops sorry bran

I see from Wikipedia that she had published plenty of other books while I was still young enough to be reading them, I don't know why I didn't.

Oh READ THEM NOW BRAN

go on

I will sit here and wait for you to come back and talk to me about them

I want to read about manly yet sensitive men

Franny you must stop inspiring me to read so much, we are overflowing with books but I always want more