The people Rosemary Sutcliff’s creates are imbued with the beliefs of their own time. Her books are not popcorn historical fiction novels with anachronistic characters dressed in the costumes of the time but keeping the ideas and sensibilities of their XX/XXI century authors. In Rosemary Sutcliff’s books the history of Britain comes alive through sensuous descriptions of luscious forests and ragged mountains, and characters so deeply imagined that linger in your mind after the book has ended, like childhood friends untouched by time and the drudgery of life. Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth (now also a film movie) is a ‘masterpiece’, thinks Carmen Ferreiro Esteban. Born in Galicia in Spain and now living in the USA, Carmen wrote the young adult novel Two Moon Princess.
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