She is in her favourite historical territory, between the decline of the Roman empire and the lightening of the Dark Ages, a period of shifting tribes and religions, of uncertainty, migration and conflicting loyalties to old and new forces. The issues Rosemary Sutcliff weaves into her narrative, with the skill one would expect from her, are not at all childish. In Blood Feud it is scarcely visible at all, and not only because the hero is no longer a child (nor even that stereotype of history-for-children, a child by our century’s reckoning but an adult in his own). The chasm between children’s and adults’ literature narrows to a crack in historical fiction. But I am sure that she would have read and welcomed its review of Blood Feud in 1976: I do not think that I ever saw her reading The Economist, nor indeed did I ever see a copy of it in her study in Sussex. Every morning, at the same time, Rosemary Sutcliff would walk though to her study where, leaning on the walking stick she always used, first she would open her post and then read the Daily Telegraph.
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