Jenny Overton - also, AF and Carols

[ex_ajhalluk585]

Cross posted from my own journal

Comments

[debodacious]

I like her books very much - I have the 3 you mention and am planning a festive re-read of The Thirteen Days of Christmas next week. My copy of that also refers to a book called The Ship from Simnel Street which I haven't read, but I think is another un-AFish book (the heroine is called Polly Oliver and wants to marry a soldier, so it sounds as if it could be inspired by a song too).

[ex_ajhalluk585]

Oh, if I had a copy I'd so be re-reading it (I rely on topsy-turvy to produce one eventually) and also to re-read to the steps -

"On the last day of Christmas his true love gave to him

Her heart so blithe and gay -"
had me in floods the first four or five times I took it out from the library (and then I got too old. for the children's section) ...

[debodacious]

Too old for the children's section?
Shome mishtake shurely?

[ex_ajhalluk585]

Oh, but definitely in the children's section.

[oursin]

1998 jointly authored volume A suffragette nest: Peaslake, 1910 and after, according to the British Library Integrated Catalogue. Appears to be the same Jenny Overton.

[coughingbear]

Oh yes, I like her books too, and agree about the AF-ishness of the two modern ones. Some of the characters' turns of phrase I remember reminding me of Nicola and Rowan, as well as the way she uses the play.

I thought I had A Ship from Simnel Street, which is in the Thirteen Days of Christmas mould, but a quick check of the shelves hasn't revealed it. (Though that may not mean anything.) It is inspired by the Polly Oliver song, though it's told from the point of view of her sister Susannah, who helps to run their parents' bakery, and I liked it very much.