![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosemary Sutcliff suffered from Still’s disease and spent most of her life in a wheelchair, making her incredible depictions of landscape and adventure all the more remarkable as they have the quality of someone who frequently wandered the hills no doubt she did so in her imagination. However, her elevated prose and depth of historical detail make her a captivating writer for adults as well even she claimed that her stories (eventually spanning 50 novels) were for readers “from 9 to 90.” However, I think if I had first read this book at 9, I would have missed the vast majority of its complexities and unexpectedly sublime beauty. The Mark of the Horse Lord was my first foray into the writings of Rosemary Sutcliff, the renowned British novelist widely regarded as the finest writer of children’s historical fiction. ![]()
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