![]() ![]() not only for the clarity of her memory and for her determination to be honest, however painful the revelation, but also for her considerable powers of description. ![]() With the same no-nonsense vigor that is the hallmark of her historical novels for children, Sutcliff recalls her first twenty-five years.Brief but rich, frank but never sloppy: a crisp little gem for Sutcliff fans and connoisseurs of childhood memoirs. ![]() In this candid, stirring autobiography, first published in 1983, the renowned author of Mark of the Horse Lord, Eagle of the Ninth, and, most recently, The Shining Company, tells the story of her childhood in England before the war, and her struggle from a very young age with a rare form of juvenile arthritis. ![]()
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