![]() ![]() I'd rather read her than most other authors. Even the prisoning hedges were beautiful, protective with their rusty thorns, their bastions of holly and juniper, and at the corners, like towers, their thick columns of yews.'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out. ![]() Favourite Quote I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. The old house, with it tufts of rosy houseleek and the spreading gilt of the lichens, was beautiful. Thornyhold, with its enchanted defences against evil, puts an end to loneliness and insecurity, and allows Gilly to move forward with confidence towards a new and satisfying life. With its reputation for magic and its resident black cat, Thornyhold offers Gilly more than just a new home. ![]() Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future. Mary Stewart's storytelling is as spell-binding as ever in her twelfth novel, a gothic romance featuring sparkling prose, delightful characterisation and classic intrigue.The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. ![]()
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