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My ongoing investigation into possible sources of gluten in the house is now deranged. I have gone through everything and I am reduced to phoning the help lines of toothpaste manufacturers. No definite word yet on the Nature’s Own probiotics (chemist cannot confirm, Coeliac Society says it is OK, manufacturer cannot be reached). Wouldn’t it be ironic if the gut healers were harming her gut?
Jan. 14th, 2015
Sutcliff reread
Jan. 14th, 2015 04:28 pmRosemary Sutcliff, The Roundabout Horse, 1986
I have a theory – one day to be presented at Swancon – that Rosemary Sutcliff started out her writing career with fantasy (The Queen Elizabeth Story), then wrote her most popular historical novels, before returning to fantasy in her later years. *The Roundabout Horse* is one of her later works, a novel for very young children about a magic roundabout horse who meets a girl who loves him very much. The horse is going to leave when the fair moves on, but manages to escape and turn into a real horse who lives with the little girl forever.
It gets two thumbs up from Pearl who read alternate pages with me.
I have a theory – one day to be presented at Swancon – that Rosemary Sutcliff started out her writing career with fantasy (The Queen Elizabeth Story), then wrote her most popular historical novels, before returning to fantasy in her later years. *The Roundabout Horse* is one of her later works, a novel for very young children about a magic roundabout horse who meets a girl who loves him very much. The horse is going to leave when the fair moves on, but manages to escape and turn into a real horse who lives with the little girl forever.
It gets two thumbs up from Pearl who read alternate pages with me.