6/11/2023 0 Comments The stolen lake by joan aiken![]() ![]() ![]() The titles alone are enough to be alluring to those with even the shortest DNA sequence for appreciating poetry. Published between 19, the twelve books of The Wolves Chronicles are an example of the kind of children’s fantasies at which the English seem to excel: short, fast-paced, and madcap, and, if anything, even more appealing to adults than children. If any of this inspired lunacy sounds appealing, you owe it to yourself to look up Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles. ![]() Meanwhile, children are disappearing in the north of England, where the mysterious figure of Gold Kingy has declared independence from the south. In South America, Guinevere awaits the return of King Arthur, having foresightedly frozen the lake across which he is supposed to return and taken it with her when she fled the Saxons. It’s a world where wolves have slunk through the Channel tunnel to haunt the landscape, and over in New England a pink whale struggles to save its obsessed pursuer. Imagine, if you will, a 19th Century England ruled by James III, popularly known as Good King Jim, and forever bedeviled by the Hanoverian supporters of Bonnie Prince George. ![]()
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