tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post93227064061721059..comments2024-03-26T05:50:14.492-07:00Comments on Life on Magrs: 'Come Back, Lucy' and 'Black Maria'Paul Magrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-85373794520561260222012-06-28T04:53:44.301-07:002012-06-28T04:53:44.301-07:00Come Back, Lucy sounds extraordinary. Just yesterd...Come Back, Lucy sounds extraordinary. Just yesterday I found an odd novel by Ursula Moray Williams with a similar ish theme, Castle Merlin, but Pamela's novel sounds much more about unstable ideas of identity, strange people in the mirror and so on. Very richly uncanny.<br /><br />I love Black Maria - I knew I would, but it was perhaps less camp than I'd expected. I have the complex oddness of the green magic, and the work she puts in on making her characters believable, about making the novel in some ways about Mums.<br /><br />I think all of DWJ has come back into print (I heard some interesting news on that yesterday, though) but she’s still not exactly high profile, although so rewarding– it’s lovely that her and Pamela are both getting talked about on your blog.Nick Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618461043660129105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-13726108730957855612012-06-28T01:40:21.700-07:002012-06-28T01:40:21.700-07:00Cheers, Wendy! I do think some of these Puffins f...Cheers, Wendy! I do think some of these Puffins from the 60s and 70s have been unjustly neglected. Pamela Sykes needs bringing back into print. (All of DWJ is in print, i think.)Paul Magrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-3073962249513335132012-06-27T14:19:16.494-07:002012-06-27T14:19:16.494-07:00So interestin, Thanks Paul for bringing these agai...So interestin, Thanks Paul for bringing these again back into the reader's view. W.xWendy Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532817003318632539noreply@blogger.com