2021/119: The Moonspinners -- Mary Stewart

2021/119: The Moonspinners -- Mary Stewart

Over the hot white rock and the deep green of the maquis, the judas trees lifted their clouds of scented flowers the colour of purple daphne, their branches reaching landwards, away from the African winds. [p. 11]

Read 'on location' in Crete, this is an oddly timeless thriller (published 1962: apparently quite different from the film version) with a feisty and impulsive heroine, Nicola Ferris. ( Read more... )