Do you love K M Peyton?

[FrannyandZooey]

Well, do you???

I wrote to her

when I was 12

and she wrote back

exactly Franny, who could ever compare?

Had a rather restless night troubled by strange dreams.

must find these again. loved them.

I am investigating abe books.

OMG!! I had forgotten all about Patrick P and now it's all coming back to me. I had the most gigantic hots for him when I read those books - must have been 12 or 13. It's true that no real-life man could ever, ever hope to live up to the expectations created by PP in the adolescent female. Who would play him in a film?

She said she was starting a book about patrick and iris especially for me.

I wonder which one it was...

oooh good question muminbrum! Difficult as he starts teenage.....NOT daniel radcliffe ha ha!

I was thinking definitely not D blardy Radliffe. Someone not classically handsome but smouldering - possibly with a hint of a broken nose - does PP have a broken nose in the books or am I projecting my own notions of smouldering hunkosity?

....Flambards.....

That is a word I haven't considered for, oh, nearly 30 years. It's so long ago that I cant remember anything about the plot, just the "feel" of the book IFYKWIM, but I do remember that I absolutely loved them.

Noooooo! I now know why I haven't thought about them for so long. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Will dies doesn't he? And I've just had a weird thought - I've married a very slim, dark, extremely clever man, with a distaste for masculine sporting pursuits and passionate about all things mechanical (at one point he was happy to leave me so that he could go and do something very mechano-technical in remote parts of the Borneo jungle). Perhaps these adolescent books do have a profound if sub-conscious effect. Am I heartless enough to give these to my DDs when they are teenagers?

Would reading about Patrick Pennington (this series passed me by as a teenager) help with my PSTD?

hmm, I'm thinking someone with the ability to look as if they'd punch you as soon as look at you but there is something about them that makes you feel they COULD be hiding musical genius behind the rough exterior.....Sean Bean springs to mind, he can do repressed violence/monosyllabic brooding......though he's too old and I can't imagine someone under twenty looking that ropey somehow!

issymum, I have no idea if the PP books would help you with your PTSD, somehow I doubt it, would simply add another layer to it, not only did Will die, but PP married Ruth (that droopy girl, he should have waited for ME)!

Funny, I thought Sean Bean too even though he is way too old. That general sort of thing though. My sister's MIL says "Sean Bean .... he's ALL MAN!"

I never 'got' Sean Bean till I saw him as Boromir in Lord of the Rings.....

oh yeah ,sean bean, always liked him too.

SEAN BEAN NO WAY

must put ds to bed but I am just appalled at this suggestion

admittedly, sean bean is perhaps like Pennington but without the sensitive side

You obviously like your men to look roughty but be all artisitic and emotional inside. Rather than look roughty and be rough.

Sharp...lady chetterly's lover...

He is a wife beater who looks like a plumber

you have all disappointed me sorely

Don't be cross F&Z! Although the wifebeating is obviously a bad thing, surely looking like a plumber isn't necessarily also a bad thing? We can surely agree to differ about Mr Bean (!! never thought of that before! I shall never look at him in the same way again).
As for a movie PP, how about the young Eric Roberts - 1978 "King of the Gypsies" vintage?

NOT Sean Bean Frany, just someone who does intense and brooding like he can......do not worry yourself......someone pass Franny her pills

Go on then, lets have your thoughts.....I am binning Eric Roberts I'm afraid so you can't say him.

What about a 20 yr old Gabriel Byrne, he looks artistic and tortured but have concerns about the rough side of things there......come on folks, I want this sorted lets have your ideas.

Looking like a plumber is all fine and dandy if you have the soul of a poet

I don't know who Eric doodah is, I am off to Google

if anyone has any more suggestions please provide links, I haven't watched tv since circa 2002

How about Hugh Jackman off X-Men for PP?
I actually (guilty secret) preferred Jonathan, and by a strange coincidence he too got girl pregnant, Iris, on a Greek island. That was after the kidnapping. And the death of his teacher. What a complicated life he had, riding ponies must have been the boring bit for him.

eh, who did you get pregnant on a greek island, sestius?

AND IF oops sorry, will stop shouting, if Hugh Jackman was the one who played Curly in the NT production of Oklahoma then yes please