From: Faith Williams <faithmw>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 18:43:47 -0700 (PDT)

I want to add that Eva Ibbotson has written wonderful books officially for adults too. They are sometimes classed with romances, but they have the best qualities of the genre, like Twelfth Night. They're very literate, with a European touch of understood culture, and they're funny, and there are very good heroes and heroines and very bad villains, who are rude to the old or the handicapped, or just totally self?ntered. A Countess Below Stairs was one of the first, about Russian emigrees, but then one of my favorites is A Song for Summer. A Company of Swans is awfully good and so is Magic Flutes. I've read everything of hers I can get hold of -- big public libraries have them, and they're almost all available on Abebooks.com or Amazon used. Great for summer reading, or for any time you want to think the world will come out right.

Faith Williams
 
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