Lost Summer (1975)

[hedgebird]

An essay of 1500 words describing a piece of Sutcliff's juvenilia which sounds quite charming, from the anthology The Thorny Paradise: Writers on Writing for Children, edited by Edward Blishen, which you can read here at Internet Archive. She later mentioned this early story in her 1983 memoir Blue Remembered Hills, with some slightly different details as you can see here. The essay also discusses some trade-offs of inexperience and experience as a writer – I'd love to know if the writers here agree.

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