Welcome to the Mary Queen of Plots website. Yes, I am making a terrible pun on Mary Queen of Scots, that other Mary Stewart/Stuart. I am looking forward to sharing my love of Mary Stewart’s books and hope to hear from other fans. It’s fair to say I love everything Mary Stewart has written and my favourite book is – probably, usually – Madam, Will You Talk? What’s your favourite?
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Madam, Will You Talk? excerpt in The Bulletin, July 1956 Selections, Doubleday One Dollar Book Club, New York. Illustrator unknown
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My favorite is Nine Coaches Waiting. Just read it for my 2nd time and I liked it even better on my reprise. The literary references, wonderful characters, and gothic plot make this a winner for me. Can’t wait to read it again!
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Yes, it’s got everything, hasn’t it? I love Linda’s relationship with poor little unloved Philippe
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There is so much to love in this novel! It so reads like a Ann Radcliffe or Wilkie Collins. Deliciously creepy!
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Yes – the bit in the roof space of William Blake’s hut/house gives me goosebumps, definitely creepy!
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That’s my favorite part in the book. Even on the second read, I had to take a quick peek at the end of the chapter to make sure they survived! Sooooooooo tense!
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Ooh you peek ahead – I’ve never done that! Mary Stewart writes tension so very well
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Finding a blog about one of my all time favourite authors. Definitely that is one of the good things that happened this week. I am planning to read your blogposts from the first one onwards and am really looking forward to that.
Along with Virginia Woolf and Etty Hillesum only Mary Stewart has a shelf of her own in my bookcase. My favourite book is The Moonspinners.
Each year I (re)read at least one of her books. Always choosing them in order of being published. having finished them all I happily start all over again.
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Welcome to the blog, Cath! It’s wonderful that you enjoy reading and re-reading Mary Stewart’s writing so much. I admire your re-reading strategy, mine never managed to be so organised but I am attempting a more chronological approach nowadays so that I can put up ‘Pages’ about each novel on this blog. And your favourite Mary Stewart, The Moon-Spinners, will be next to have its own page.
I love Virginia Woolf too but I have to admit to never having heard of Etty Hillesum: that is something I must put right.
I hope that you will enjoy my blog. I’d be fascinated to know how you found it or heard of it.
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For quite some years I am enjoying following Cornflower’s blog. She mentioned yours a couple of days ago.
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Thanks, Cath, that is good to know. Cornflower Books is a fantastic blog, I’m confident every good book ever written must feature in that blog somewhere, it must be the deepest, widest, highest, best book blog!
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