D E Stevenson reprints & new titles by Greyladies

Exciting news - Five Windows Peter West and The English Air have been re-published by Grey Ladies!! These are hard to find titles.

Has anyone read Peter West?

I recommend Five Windows, not crazy about The English Air, although I know other folks are.

They had already published Jean Erskine's secret and Found in the Attic, previously unpublished titles. Found in the Attic is a collection of bits and pieces found in the attic. "Wintering" a story told in poetry is worth a read as are the bits on her opinions on writing fiction. I keep meaning to look up bits and put them in the quotations group. Haven't been able to find them online, so I'll have to type them. I don't recommend Jean Erskine's Secret, it must have been written early in her career.

Emily Dennistoun is another of the attic books. My comment when I read it was, "It is overwrought, and brooding, and almost entirely humourless." The Fair Miss Fortune is nice enough, but seems incomplete. I thought Found in the Attic was a good collection, and I loved "Wintering". Portrait of Saskia was disappointing.

I'm very happy about Five Windows being reprinted. It is a wonderful book. I already had a copy of The English Air, which I liked well enough when I read it many years ago, but haven't revisited. It is jumbled in my mind with Sarah Morris Remembers

The Baker’s Daughter
Celia’s House
Listening Valley
The Young Clementina
The Four Graces
The Two Mrs. Abbotts
Miss Buncle Married
Miss Buncles' Book

The Four Graces is lovely, I just finished a re-read last night. I also really like Listening Valley and The Two Mrs. Abbotts.

Apparently Vittoria Cottage will soon be released in audio. Not a favourite of mine, so I doubt that I'll get it.

The covers are fun, I think. Maybe I'll try posting them. I don't have Celia's House, so I got it in Kindle format. I have all of the others, but Young Clementina is a fairly fragile paperback. I'll have to re-read before I decide whether to buy this version. I do want to support this effort, though and I want Mrs Tim Carries On to be more widely available, I am hoping if the earlier ones sell, they will keep going.

>3 MDGentleReader: I have not yet read either The Two Mrs. Abbotts or The Four Graces but they are on my shelf...

As far as I can tell, they have now published almost all of her titles in Kindle format.

I recommend:
Five Windows
The Blue Sapphire
Mrs. Tim Carries On

Even: The Fair Miss Fortune, Peter West and The Empty World (apocalytic)

Not, however, Found in the Attic.
Or Rosabelle Shaw ( thank goodness, not recommended)

Bump.

I did read The Two Mrs. Abbotts and The Four Graces, and enjoyed them.

However, those two have been rehomed in a purge. I believe someone else will enjoy them as much if not more than I did.

I read The Two Mrs. Abbotts recently and really liked it. It has lots of interesting unique characters.