Yeah, it's easy to miss unless you read them back to back! (And then after that first scene, some of the chronological markers don't really match up that neatly, haha... someone pointed out to me once that Cerdic in SAS was conceived years after his dad Vortigern's death in LB.)

Chantefable was contemplating awhile back trying a Sutcliff readalong/book club... I don't know which books and in what order, but maybe we could refloat the idea sometime, if there's interest?

I never know when I find these pieces if they're going to be mostly remarks she also made elsewhere – I was pretty pleased to get some of her opinions on her later books, that were quite new to me!