Cynthia Harnett is wonderful, and grossly under-rated. The Woolpack and A Load of Unicorn are even better than Ring Out Bow Bells! IMHO; The Writing on the Hearth, the other vaguely connected one, is less good and harder to get hold of (and was illustrated by someone else, grr), but parts of it stuck in my head for years in between reading it from the school library and finding my own copy. The Great House is very obviously an early effort, but quite sweet; Stars of Fortune is probably my least favourite, but IIRC a nice corrective to the standard "child hero interferes and nothing could possibly go wrong" plot. Would be interested to hear what prejudiced you against children's historical fiction if that's something you ever feel like writing about.
I read Flowers in the Attic and at least some of the sequels as a teen, and still feel disgusting for having done so on the rare occasions when I think about them!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-06-04 09:05 am (UTC)I read Flowers in the Attic and at least some of the sequels as a teen, and still feel disgusting for having done so on the rare occasions when I think about them!