Sutcliff reread
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emma_in_dreamRosemary 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.
