British Children's Authors interview (1976)

[hedgebird]

There's some interesting background on The Shield Ring and The Eagle of the Ninth in this piece from British Children's Authors: Interviews at Home by Cornelia Jones and Olivia R. Way, which you can read here on Internet Archive. It looks like an essay at first glance, as the interviewers have not included most of their own side of the conversation.

The book mentioned as an inspiration for The Shield Ring is perhaps by Nicholas Size, in what I think a plausible guess by a commenter on the official blog. (I say "guess" because I don't know her source. If you do, tell us!) We will learn from a later essay it was non-fiction, not a novel. I.e. if Size was indeed the author, The Epic of Buttermere not The Secret Valley. Anyone familiar with either?

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