{"id":3456,"date":"2022-07-06T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2022-07-07T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:13:33","slug":"mary-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"Mary Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month\u2019s edition of Writing Magazine (highly recommended by the way for all things writerly) featured Susanna Kearsley choosing her favourite books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a longtime fan of Susanna Kearsley\u2019s books and have always read and reread Mary Stewart so I was thrilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without giving it much thought, I fired off a letter. Opened the August edition, which arrived this morning, to find they\u2019d printed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s great to get a letter printed in a magazine or newspaper but even better to get Mary\u2019s books out to a wider audience. I\u2019ve loved her books since I was about twelve and reread them often. As I get older, I get different things from them, surely the sign of great writing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My battered Coronet editions. Circa 1970s 😊<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My favourites of hers are her early romantic suspense novels, often set in Greece. My Brother Michael made me desperate to visit Greece which I did. I still haven\u2019t got to Delphi but it\u2019s on the bucket list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cannot claim to be even a tiny fraction as good a writer as Mary Stewart but her writing has influenced me enormously. I favour the quietly heroic male characters featured so often in her romance books and the car chase in Tash\u2019s Story owes a great deal to the incredibly tense one in Madam, Will You Talk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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