tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post8947898853396308488..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Honor Arundel, YA Pioneer by Sheena WilkinsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-22202503961967787892020-07-13T18:38:26.569+01:002020-07-13T18:38:26.569+01:00I've been rereading the Emma books for more th...I've been rereading the Emma books for more than forty years, and in fact did do again just this morning! I think Arundel is a wonderful author - I love the darkness in her work that others have commented on, but she's also great at describing the good times. I've been steadily acquiring all her books secondhand over the last few years, remembering them from library loans in my youth (I'm now 54), and it's great to see them being appreciated here. And especially lovely to hear from Honor's daughter. She's very good at writing small children - Vanessa in the Emma books and Gays' daughter in Longest Weekend, so I wonder if she used her family as models. Very sad that we lost her so young. Beck Laxtonhttp://beckblogbeckblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-81298027985586310702020-06-19T05:07:00.019+01:002020-06-19T05:07:00.019+01:00I will never forget reading The High House more th...I will never forget reading The High House more than 40 years ago! Whenever I’m tempted to go to bed without doing the dishes, I think of Emma and Aunt Patsy! Your mother was a gifted author who inspired me in many ways.Kelly Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991961719458715338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-66552536417364771832020-01-21T16:55:04.611+00:002020-01-21T16:55:04.611+00:00I loved The High House, which was one of the few b...I loved The High House, which was one of the few books I encountered growing up that was set in Edinburgh, where I lived. The city was almost a character in the book and very recognisable. I also remember reading The Blanket Word, from the library. It was very dark, and I wouldn't say I enjoyed it exactly, but the originality of the heroine really made it stick in my mind. A brave writer.<br />Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-84692606460803263582019-06-04T12:23:42.315+01:002019-06-04T12:23:42.315+01:00Honor Arundel was my mother and so I was delighted...Honor Arundel was my mother and so I was delighted to see that her books are still appreciated after all this time...Thank you.Catherine Kerr-Dineennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-82817883019732179172017-08-15T08:06:35.163+01:002017-08-15T08:06:35.163+01:00Really interesting! Thanks. I think I missed this ...Really interesting! Thanks. I think I missed this YA stage. I jumped from children's books to adults. I never saw many YA books in our small local library and didn't have a librarian who prompted me to order them. Now I put in orders all the time. xxxxHelen Larderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04142352920127597468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-49988333531362681842017-08-13T11:14:18.069+01:002017-08-13T11:14:18.069+01:00'Young Adult' as a category in public libr...'Young Adult' as a category in public libraries was certainly around in the 1970s. One of the first things I did, on becoming 'Senior Assistant Librarian' [as it was then termed] at Ringwood in 1972 was to introduce a Young adult bay at the end of the Junior Library, into which I would put appropriate books by such people as Arundel, Peyton, Gordon Cooper, Brinsmead - quite a few of the Oxford authors, actually, on reflection ...! - and as they were pblished, Judy Blume. I'd also randomly seed it with a few 'adult fiction' titles by people such as Heyer, Buchan, George Macdonald Fraser, the odd Agatha Christie or Ngaio Marsh, to give a taste of such authors that teenage readers might move on to.Abbeybufohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09943340447141277258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-70036747201376175742017-08-13T06:52:28.769+01:002017-08-13T06:52:28.769+01:00John Rowe Townsend? John Verney? John Rowe Townsend? John Verney? catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com