I do not think she would be entirely pleased
Well, I wouldn't be, in her posthumous shoes, as it were.
Okay, I was slightly interested - and a bit beswozzled - to see in one of the promotional emails that flits pasts my gaze from Amazon, The Complete Works of O. Douglas: Scottish Historical Novels, Including the Memoir of the Author. At what is admittedly the attractive price of 99p for the Kindle.
And I was - 'Historical novels'????
So I clicked on the link (although I already have a substantial number of epubs of Ms Buchan's oeuvre as they were available via The Faded Page) -
So, apparently these days 'Historical Novel' means 'a novel written in a bygone day but actually dealing with contemporary life'? (which these all were, dealing with life in the Scottish Borders mostly among A Certain Class during the first few decades of the C20th).
I will also add: the Memoir is by her, but not about her: it is about her brother, John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir.
Also, further issues of TRUTH IN ADVERTISING - if the table of contents is correct, NO WAI is this the Complete Works, I can spot several missing titles.
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