Mary Stewart on Kindle 99p

TonTonMacoute · 2023-05-28T10:31:55+00:00

Just that really. Used to love her books as a teen. Quite tempted to download for my holiday reading!

determinedtomakethiswork · 28/05/2023 11:42

Oh thank you for this! I absolutely love her books.

heldinadream · 28/05/2023 11:46

Thanks OP.
While we're at it, I just discovered this morning that Simone de Beauvoir's recently re-discovered novel 'The Inseparables' is 99p on Kindle at the moment - don't know how long for.
My Kindle is very old now and getting alarmingly full...

CrossPurposes · 28/05/2023 14:02

I've never read a Mary Stewart book but I'm tempted because her work sounds like Daphne du Maurier. Which one should I start with? My favourite du Maurier is My Cousin Rachel if that helps.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 28/05/2023 14:11

CrossPurposes · 28/05/2023 14:02

I've never read a Mary Stewart book but I'm tempted because her work sounds like Daphne du Maurier. Which one should I start with? My favourite du Maurier is My Cousin Rachel if that helps.

Airs Above the Ground (a plot involving the Lipizzaner horses in Austria) is a good one to start; or Wildfire at Midnight, set on Skye. Others are

Nine Coaches Waiting - women becomes governess to a young French aristocrat
Thunder on the Right - woman goes to a French convent to investigate her cousin's death
The Ivy Tree - set around the themes of impersonation and who people really are
Madam Will You Talk? - south of France, abduction and WW2 secrets coming to light.

And no-one has written better about Merlin and Arthur, her trilogy is superb. I really envy you, reading her novels for the first time, I've been a fan since a teenager.

CrossPurposes · 28/05/2023 15:17

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 28/05/2023 14:11

Airs Above the Ground (a plot involving the Lipizzaner horses in Austria) is a good one to start; or Wildfire at Midnight, set on Skye. Others are

Nine Coaches Waiting - women becomes governess to a young French aristocrat
Thunder on the Right - woman goes to a French convent to investigate her cousin's death
The Ivy Tree - set around the themes of impersonation and who people really are
Madam Will You Talk? - south of France, abduction and WW2 secrets coming to light.

And no-one has written better about Merlin and Arthur, her trilogy is superb. I really envy you, reading her novels for the first time, I've been a fan since a teenager.

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Thank you so much. I've bought Airs... and The Ivy Tree.

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TonTonMacoute · 28/05/2023 19:40

CrossPurposes · 28/05/2023 15:17

Thank you so much. I've bought Airs... and The Ivy Tree.

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Hope you enjoy!

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determinedtomakethiswork · 28/05/2023 19:54

The Ivy tree is one of my favourite books. I've always thought she was a very underrated writer.

Clawdy · 28/05/2023 20:01

Our school library when I was in my teens had all Mary Stewart's books because our head mistress was her best friend! I read them all and really enjoyed them.

MillicentMargaretAmanda · 28/05/2023 23:58

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain I had to check whether I'd posted and forgotten as this is very much what I would have written. I discovered Mary Stewart as a teen via her sublime Merlin trilogy. It's the one thing I thank my otherwise useless English teacher for... when talking about Of Mice and Men we touched on the theme of grail quests and he pointed us to the trilogy.

Malbecmoron · 29/05/2023 00:04

I loved her books when I was young, will go have a look.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/05/2023 17:52

MillicentMargaretAmanda · 28/05/2023 23:58

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain I had to check whether I'd posted and forgotten as this is very much what I would have written. I discovered Mary Stewart as a teen via her sublime Merlin trilogy. It's the one thing I thank my otherwise useless English teacher for... when talking about Of Mice and Men we touched on the theme of grail quests and he pointed us to the trilogy.

Along with Georgette Heyer and CS Forester, a writer who was incapable of writing a bad sentence or a bad book.