Mary C
posts on 6/15/2013 1:11:37 PM
Does the House trilogy really NEED a sequel? How much more could happen to the house in fifty years? And, thinking of what COULD, I'd hate to see it turned into condos! I think, from the way Sunset ends, that the house is still standing, and I'm content to let it go at that--unless somehow a descendant of Martin Reed emerges from somewhere! :)
Now To See a Fine Lady is another matter! I can imagine Araminta overcoming her mother's misgivings and getting Lady __ (can't remember the family's name!) to be Henry Higgins to Araminta's Liza, then being exactly the helpmate that family needs to further its egalitarian views. At the very least, she should have appeared, or at least been mentioned, in later novels as a gracious lady who championed the poor and powerless, and young people who learned that she came from such a background herself would be incredulous.
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Daria
posts on 6/15/2013 9:40:41 AM
Really cool to see that people still are into Lofts who is sometimes considered too old school. I remember Jassy which I thought was ahead of its time in the way the story played out. It was made into a pretty decent film in the 40s.
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BarbaraH
posts on 5/22/2013 12:50:53 AM
Hmmmm not sure about that , though I love the House and everthing else to death, I just dont know that I would want to read a contemporary-time episode as it were and it would have to be that wouldn't it , Sunset finishing in the fifties or sixties?
I've always wanted there to be a sequel to To See A Fine Lady and the Suffolk Trilogy, but who could match Norah Lofts ......
PS OumaFred, join us on Goodreads....
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Ouma Fred
posts on 5/20/2013 6:49:46 PM
Norah Lofts' publishers should be kind to us and come up with an offer a book deal to any writer who possesses a wealthy knowledge of English history to sequel Norah's House Trilogy. The beauty with which 'The House at Sunset' carved screams for continuation. Nora would have agreed. Experimenting is the best route through which good art is arrived at.
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Mary
posts on 2/1/2013 11:28:11 PM
Welcome, Megan! I second Barbara's invitation.
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barbarah
posts on 2/1/2013 10:09:39 PM
Hi Megan, how nice to get a new 'face'. I have all NL's too,and your copy Here Was A Man sounds a lovely thing to have.
Join us on the Fans of Norah Lofts on Goodreads too.
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Megan Allan
posts on 1/31/2013 9:07:20 PM
I have just discovered this site, and was pleased to do so, as I have been a fan of Norah Lofts for over forty years. I have a collection of all of her books, including some non-fiction. Best of all though, is the one given me by my son for Christmas a few years ago - a first edition of "Here Was a Man", and signed and dated November 1st, 1936. I treasure it!
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Barbara
posts on 2/19/2012 3:00:25 AM
Hi Ouma Fred. Not me unearthing treasures in ex aristocrats houses I'm afraid , I wish it were! But I'm so glad you are still having some luck. Most of my NL's are very unprepossesing , often with truly awful and unrepresentative pictures on the cover. Do join us at Fans of Norah Lofts on Goodreads.......
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Ouma Fred
posts on 2/17/2012 5:19:34 PM
Hi Barbara,
You sent my curiosity dancing with your post. I love old books, they've turned me into some sort of a relic hunter scavenging through second hand book stalls in Nairobi. That's how I managed to get Norah Loft's 'The House At Old Vine' & 'The House At Sunset.' I hope I hope I'll get 'The Town House' to complete the trilogy. Sadly, Norah's book are nowhere in Nairobi's book stores.
Talking of your find, I am sure it's a great book. You unearthed it from a dwelling that once housed an aristocrat. Those folks had great taste! That book must be having the same. I would'nt mind having it under my custody. Let me know what you decide.
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Rod
posts on 2/17/2012 9:01:47 AM
Hi all Norah Lofts fans,
I have found a hard cover copy (1956 printing I think) of Afternoon of an Autocrat in a recently cleaned out basement. Still highly readable, dust jacket is torn and some cover moisture damage. The binding is fine, no real damage to the printed pages. Not a bad read but not an author I want to add to my collection. Any interest out there for a copy or shall I send it to 'goodwill'?
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