REVIEW: Jersey Adventure

Aug 20, 2016 12:38

Jersey Adventure: Viola Bayley, Dent, 1969

The back flap of this book’s dust jacket quotes the Junior Bookshelf stating ‘Miss Bayley is a sort of Mary Stewart for young readers’, which is an accurate description, I think. ( Read more... )

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callmemadam August 20 2016, 18:15:16 UTC
I should think everyone has read White Holiday (why not Something Adventure?) because it was published as a Seagull and by the Children's Press so is easy to find. The Adventure books are much less common and I've only read a couple. I like that Mary Stewart comparison, very apt.

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feather_ghyll August 21 2016, 15:24:10 UTC
Ah, White Holiday ever-present. Not every one of her books are Something Adventures - there's April Gold and The Shadow on the Wall as well. Maybe the change to being published by Dent was a factor? I know a couple have recurring characters, but not all - I've got a few former library copies. It'

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lizarfau August 22 2016, 00:42:55 UTC
I've never read Viola Bayley, but this sounds good. I used to love Mary Stewart's books when I was in my late teens/early 20s.

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feather_ghyll August 22 2016, 19:28:11 UTC
Her White Holiday is widely available and worth reading as typical of Bayley's work. I have reread Stewart's contemporary books many a time.

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