![]() ![]() The disreputable family he claimed to be boarding with say, in their turn, that they have never heard of him.Īll the same, Simon begins to work for a wheelwright named Cobb, study at the art academy of the eccentric Furneaux, and make the acquaintance of the even more eccentric Duke of Battersea, whose wife’s lady-in-waiting is none other than Sophie, Simon’s fellow-sufferer at the foundlings school from which he ran away years ago. He immediately runs into difficulty: Field is nowhere to be found. Now it flowers into something positively fantastic: a parallel-history England in which the Stuarts never left the throne (James III is King) and the Hanoverian George is a vile pretender whose supporters are thick with plots.Ī couple of years after the events of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the charming, gifted goose-boy named Simon comes to London to study painting with his friend, Dr. In The Wolves of Willoughby Chase it seemed unusual enough: a version of 19th century England in which wolves are a constant threat throughout the winter. One of the funny, surprising, and weird things about this series is the setting. She also knows how to craft tired old plots into breathlessly exciting, funny, surprising, and weird adventures. Daughter of the poet Conrad Aiken, Joan writes with deft wit, original diction, and an ear for dialects and amusing slang. ![]() I think this is the second novel in the Wolves series that spans four decades of creativity by one of England’s more prolific children’s authors. ![]()
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