Meant to finish on Twelfth Night really, but had read one chapter a day since Midwinter's Eve. I've given a copy to cousin Jack too in the hope that he will read it as my kids aren't interested, although Helen did try reading it to William at bedtime, but didn't get far. Still so enjoyable, but mad that it's set between Slough and Windsor. I've been over that way a few times to Dorney looking for the locations in the book, and the manor house and the church are there, but unlike in Susan Cooper's youth there is also the roar of the M4, the Dorney Lakes and all sorts of urban encroachment - not the bucolic Buckinghamshire of the book at all.
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