liadnan

Only a month or so after Antonia Forest, and children's literature loses another star: Joan Aiken. Now we'll never know what happened to Dido and Simon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3383233.stm
(link from The Other Marcus)

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liadnan

On Forest, you might be interested to read the inimitable A. J. Hall's eulogy.

I imagine the fate of any manuscript will depend on its state and the opinions of her executors. Girls Gone By are reprinting her work: J. knows more about this.

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tabouli.livejournal.com

She told me that she writes in linear fashion (i.e. in chapter order), so it may be in a reasonable state. That said, in today's Forest surfing I read that she overwrote and then pruned brutally at the end, so it may be rambly. Not that her bereaved readers would mind (hints on what happened with Esther and Patrick at any price is my motto). Apparently she also wrote two adult novels, which Faber rejected (looks hopefully at executors).

Have you read Anne Heazlewood's 'The Marlows and their Maker'? I've put a link to it in the LJ entry I've just written, together with futher details on my afternoon with AF herself in '98.