7/7/2023 0 Comments Novel when marnie was there![]() Anna is a self-contained child and a lonely one. So it really doesn't seem too surprising when lonely orphan Anna, staying with an elderly couple for the summer, sees a girl in a white dress with long pale hair in the window of a house across the creek - a girl whom no-one else seems to have noticed. ![]() People from the Neolithic, Vikings, smugglers - none of these would look out of place here. As with the Elly Griffiths books, the shifting, changing seascape is an integral part of the story you can't always be sure what you're seeing - or even, perhaps, when you're seeing it. It was published in 1967 - I was a teenager then, so I suppose I was a bit too old for it and perhaps that's why I missed it. She was absolutely right, and I don't know why I hadn't heard of it before. (Brilliant - for a review, see here.) After I'd written about it, a friend who lives in Norwich, writer Paeony Lewis, asked if I'd read a children's book called When Marnie Was There, by Joan G Robinson - it too was set in Norfolk, and she had a feeling I might like it. ![]() At a shop at Cley Nature Reserve I bought the first in a series of mysteries set on the Norfolk coast, written by Elly Griffiths. ![]()
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