Nov. 14th, 2010

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Paris Adventure:Viola Bayley. Dent, 1962.

I may have been guilty of remembering Viola Bayley’s work too fondly, it having been a while since I read any of her stories – in general, tales of families on holiday/abroad in exoticish locations who get embroiled in adventures involving gangs and new, charismatic half-foreign friends. In fact, when put like that, apart from some of the locations being more exotic, it sounds a bit Malcolm Savilley.Read more... )

I've subsequently started reading Penelope Lively's Consequences, and am finding it quite wonderful and engrossing.

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