Caroline wrote: |
've always ignored the Three Go bit - EBD was obviously having a bad day when she wrote it, and it isn't at all born out by what actually happens... |
Lesley wrote: | ||
She had a number of bad days, didn't she? |
Caroline wrote: | ||||
You are not wrong... Although, as frustrating as the EBDisms are, I can empathise these days - it's hard to be consistent within one book, let alone 58 books written across the space of 40 odd years, and she doesn't seem to have anything so useful as an editor to help her. |
Alison H wrote: |
I think part of the reason it's all so confusing is that we're never sure what year it's meant to be - trying to work things out by the triplets' age doesn't always work!
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JayB wrote: |
Which book is it where Nell, I think, says it's beginning to look as if it might one day be possible for them to return to Austria? I think that's as near as EBD gets to mentioning the end of the war. |
KB wrote: | ||
I'm not sure EBD ever has any of her characters make a comment like this, at least not in the war-time books. Are you sure you're not thinking of a fill-in? |
KB wrote: |
Are you sure you're not thinking of a fill-in? |
Alison H wrote: |
Three Go was written in 1949, Mystery and Rosalie in 1951 and Tom in 1955, after Rescue was written in 1945. I think! |
Caroline wrote: |
KB, didn't you discuss when Tom et al were written in your afterword to Peace? Or am I making that up? |
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