Flame-Colored Taffeta
by Rosemary Sutcliff
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Twelve-year-old Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural community near the southern coast of England in the eighteenth century.Tags
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This is one of those children’s books that's also suitable for adults. This one, however, didn't appeal to me as much at Rosemary Sutcliff's other books.
Set in the 1750s, young Damaris finds a wounded man whom she presumes to be a smuggler. With a little help from her friends, she manages to hide, help, and heal him.
All the ingredients are there for an exciting story but for me it turned out to be lacking in thrills, action, suspense, and drama. Nothing major happens.
It's not a boring story, though, and the author does a good job of placing the reader in eighteenth-century England. The characters are all vivid.
Worth reading, but not one I'd come back to.
Set in the 1750s, young Damaris finds a wounded man whom she presumes to be a smuggler. With a little help from her friends, she manages to hide, help, and heal him.
All the ingredients are there for an exciting story but for me it turned out to be lacking in thrills, action, suspense, and drama. Nothing major happens.
It's not a boring story, though, and the author does a good job of placing the reader in eighteenth-century England. The characters are all vivid.
Worth reading, but not one I'd come back to.
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Rosemary Sutcliff was on born December 14, 1920 in East Clandon in Surrey, England. As a child she had Still's Disease, a form of juvenile arthritis. The effect of this led to many stays in hospital for painful remedial operations. She ended her formal education at fourteen, and went to Bideford Art School. She passed the City and Guilds show more examination and worked as a painter of miniatures. She felt cramped by the small canvas of miniature painting and turned to writing. Her first two books, The Chronicles of Robin Hood and The Queen Elizabeth Story, were published in 1950. Her other works included The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, Sword Song, and the autobiography Blue Remembered Hills. She won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for The Lantern Bearers in 1959 and the annual Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult in 1971. She won inaugural Phoenix Award in 1985 for The Mark of the Horse Lord and again in 2010 for The Shining Company. In 1975, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature, and was promoted to be a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992. She died on July 23, 1992. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Roodgevlamde zijde
- Original title
- Flame-coloured taffeta
- Original publication date
- 1986
- People/Characters
- Damaris Crocker; Peter Ballard; Genty Small; Tom Wildgoose
- Important places
- Sussex, England, UK
- First words
- The little lost cottage in the woods by Denman's Rife had been empty and hearth-cold so long that nobody remembered it was there at all.
- Quotations
- "You don't stop serving the cause you were brought up in, just because it is lost."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And flung his arms round her, laughing, and hugged her close.
- Original language
- English
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Tween, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S966 .F — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 192
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.02)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 3
