![]() ![]() For some reason that I cannot analyse, the sight of the big white bird, strange to me the smell of the lemon-flowers, the clicking of the mill-sails and the sound of spilling water the sunlight dappling through the leaves on the white anemones with their lamp-black centres and, above all, my first real sight of the legendary White Mountains… all this seemed to rush together into a point of powerful magic, happiness striking like an arrow, with one of those sudden shocks of joy that are so physical, so precisely marked, that one knows the exact moment at which the world changed." ![]() "I am still not quite sure what happened at that moment. I was enthralled with this mystery/adventure/splash of romance novel! Reading Stewart’s captivating prose had much the same effect on me as described in this moment by her twenty-two year old main character, Nicola Ferris: The Moon-Spinners will also sit proudly on my shelf of treasured books. I was in no hurry to quickly gobble down everything right away, as it is my wish to not reach the bittersweet end too soon. ![]() I knew then that I would eventually read all of Stewart’s work. That series will remain a favorite and one of the most memorable reading experiences ever. I first became smitten with Mary Stewart’s writing just two years ago when I fell completely under the spell of her enchanting writing in the Merlin trilogy. ![]()
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