Do you love K M Peyton?

[FrannyandZooey]

Well, do you???

oh this thread again

HAve realised that there are book in the series I haven't read - never even heard of Iris!

Iris is in A Midsummer Night's Death and The Last Ditch. PP doesn't appear in either, but J Meredith is certainly a fabby alternative (dark curly hair, swoon) and probably the thinking woman's choice if I am honest here

Franny&Zooey- sorry about the other thread - I didn't mean to be offfensive.

oh golly which one Oblomov

I am sorry I honestly don't know what you mean so please forget about it

ooooooooooooooooooooooooh yes. I had a huuuuuge crush on Pennington. And the flying one (was it Will?) in the Flambards books. Sigh....

nooooo, not hugh jackman, can appreciate his charms but he's too fine of feature for PP.

I think he's impossible to cast actually....no-one matches up, not even gorgeous actors!

I love K M Peyton too. All the Flambards ones and Pennington of course. I adored Fly by Night and I remember they did a tv series of that one and also Who Sir? Me Sir? I've got quite a few of the 'younger' ones for dd which I used to read to her when she was small (dh said I was indoctrinating her as they were all about ponies) but I could never get to the end of Plain Jack without crying.

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Loved Flambards.

Loved Fly-by-Night and The Team

A Pattern of Roses was my favourite - was slightly spooky!!!

A Pattern of Roses is another good one, isn't it? Her characters are so quirky but believable.

Danae what a lovely thought and if these books do not fit the bill, I do not know what will. I hope she makes a full recovery.

Me too, I loved Pennington.
He was definitely brooding
I'd forgotten about him.
Also enjoyed Who Sir, Me Sir.
And i think i can vaguely remember the Team and fly by night

Oh wow, a KM Peyton thread.
She lived near me and they filmed part of Pattern of Roses in the weir where we used to play (it was a frozen lake in the book but presumably they could not find one of those so they had to change it).

No-one(?) has mentioned Midsummer Night's Death and Prove Yourself a Hero, which were quite good, though of course Pennington was way sexier than whatever the hero of those was called.

I like the way in the Flambards books Christina gets through all the possible men by the end of the series - Will, Mark and Dick.

Hello Lio, just got back from Gower. What do you mean who did I get preganant on Greek island? Jonathan go Iris pregnant on a Greek island in (I think) The Last Ditch.

Sunnyside, do you really care if Hugh Jackman is too refined as PP (Wolverine? Too refined?) wouldn't it be just nice to see PP and Jackman sort of combined into one, brooding, muscly-yet sort-of-sensitive ooooooooh (disappears to recover).

What do people think of Marion's Angels? Interesting to see Ruth as the partner dictating the way the marriage was going I thought. Gosh, almost serious there, will go and take cold shower and think about Hugh Jackman a bit more. Or chocolate. How about this - Hugh Jackman playing PP, BUT made of chocolate?

Oh it was Jonathan Meredith and someone did mention Midsummer Night's Death.... sorry.
I see there are loads I've never read.

Jonathan got Iris pregnant?
He always seemed so responsible! Not like that rough, unreliable Patrick Pennington.....

Loved it - maybe its time for a re-read!

Ah Kathy, Iris seduced him, he couldn't help it (poor old Jonathan)

Marion's Angels just BLEW ME AWAY

I only read it this year and I was on absolute tenterhooks waiting to find out what was going to happen with Ruth and Pat

I thought the relationship was very believably developed - Ruth was always the tough and practical one IMO. Someone said "wet" earlier - she taught herself to ride unmanageable ponies - stuck by her man through a prison sentence - stuck up to her parents when she found herself pregnant and unmarried - managed to hide the fact she was in labour so that Pat could finish the concert because they needed the money

etc etc etc

she is a very strong woman, not wet at all

All of K.M.Peyton's teenagers are individual, resisting the "being the same as everyone else" fear that I remember as one of the worst things about teenagery. I particularly enjoyed Tim in "Pattern of Roses" becoming a blacksmith and Bates, Pennington's mate, having a lovely voice for folk-songs, but only able to sing when drunk. And Marion is an excellent character, though I daresay somebody would rush her straight off to the educational psychologist's nowadays. Her angels seemed a perfectly good form of therapy to me.

Hi Danae, I've some more ideas for your young friend's reading list. How about Monica Dickens, particularly her autobiographical ones - One Pair of Hands is hilarious - and the Worlds' End series? Rumer Godden is lovely too, and Elizabeth Goudge. Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. Jessica Mitford's Hons and Rebels, and Nancy Mitford, start with The Pursuit of Love. When I was 13 I loved Sylvia Plath's The Belljar too but it may be a bit too gloomy to meet this case.

I agree, Sestius. Will in Flambards, being into planes when everyone around him is into horses, is another example of that.

MuminBrum - Monica Dickens and Nancy Mitford sound like perfect escapist reading - I would definitely love those if I was ill.

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Which was the one about the boy whose brother invented a survival suit & he ended up drifting about in the north sea in it? Oddly I couldn't tell you the plot, or the names of the charcters or the title, but I remember the impression that book made on me.

Never seen that one but would like to read it!

Been down at my parents' house over Easter so I've brought back my Flambards books and have just finished rereading the first.... must say they are damn good - better if anything than I remembered.

Definitely stand up to rereading as an adult - they're really well written.