ann
posts on 5/17/2009 6:51:57 PM
I am trying to remember in which of Nora Lofts books the character Tom Rowhedge appears. Horrible things happened to him. I had thought he was in the "House" trilogy, but I've reread them and he isn't there. Would love to hear what anyone knows.
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jennifer
posts on 5/7/2009 1:31:09 PM
Has anyone mapped out Layer Wood? I am interested in opinions. Also family tree connections such as the Bowdegrave line wich showed up in "The Town House" circa 1381 , then again in "Nethergate" circa post Napolean.? Love the way certain family names keep cropping up in her novels, like the Turnbull's. Would be very interested if anyone is also interested. I am a NL fan and have been collecting her works for many years. I have 1st edition of "Queens of England" and a war time printing of "Jassy" I have several copies of most of her books paper back and HC. I think all of her books would make great movies, surprised nothing ever made in USA or UK. "Bless This House" would be my favorite to see on the big screen.
Jennifer
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BarbaraH
posts on 4/18/2009 3:38:28 AM
I seem unable to post anything of substance, I just keep getting that stupid notice about off topic, baby talk, other sites etc etc
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Mary
posts on 4/16/2009 10:43:16 PM
Yes, I loved the ending of Nethergate! (( have a very similar feeling about the end of Susan Howatch;s Absolute Truths.) Wouldn't it make a great movie? Should there be music when Annabel and John Franklin II see each other in Dilys's drawing room? I was also glad that things turned out so well for Stephen. He was more than a bit of all right, in both the books he appeared in!
Barbara, could you try posting you list of Lindas and Lindys again? I remember Lindy from Uneasy Paradise, but that one had a contemporary setting. I think most Lindas from earlier centuries were really named Belinda or some other compound.
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Rita
posts on 4/16/2009 12:30:00 PM
Another site mentioned the handling of the love scenes in NL's stories. I very much like it that she did not go into graphics. We can get enough of that in other publications.
Also: I can never decide whether I like the happy endings or the sad endings. Arguably the best ending, well, maybe one of the best, is Nethergate. Now that made up for lots of bad things that happened. My favorite parts are that one, the love scene between Paulus and Gilda in A WAyside Tavern, the maternal love of the servant girl in Hester Roon. That one always made me cry.
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Barbara
posts on 3/26/2009 12:29:42 AM
For some totally unknown reason the site wil not let me respond to the Linda thread, in which I listed all the other Lindas and Lindy's NL has .
Same thing happened to Mary a while ago. I emailed several times asking for them to attnd to the technical problems with thid messge board , but I never even get an automated answer so I assume thay are not really interested
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Mary
posts on 3/25/2009 1:32:54 PM
Yes, I think Afternoon of an Autocrat is one of her absolute best! For one thing, it has one of her most complex plots--several different threads developing simultaneously. For another, for those of us interested in the geography of the Baildon-Layer Wood area, it gives a detailed description of physical layout of the Shelmadines' parish. But I'm a litle curious about her naming a woman of that time Linda.
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susan
posts on 3/25/2009 9:13:14 AM
Has anyone read Afternoon of an Autocrat by Norah Lofts? One of my favourites of hers. After that I think its The House Trilogy and Bless this House
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Mary
posts on 3/23/2009 9:25:04 PM
I had forgotten Dave Glenny--one of NL's few characters with no redeeming qualities! Yes, he was definitely Welsh. As for the chapel link, remember that she usually depicted Methodists pretty sympathetically. (Except for Tim Bridges--imagine how differently Deb's marriage might have turned out if she'd been able to tell him why her stepmother really needed her at home!) It was the chapel-reared characters who repudiated their upbringing (except Owen Jenkins) that were the real rotters! Having quite a few Welsh and Welsh-American friends, as well as a Hugh Rice Morris on my family tree, I was rather sorry to detect this prejudice in one of my favorite authors!
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Barbara
posts on 3/23/2009 7:29:02 PM
I hadn't picked up the anti Welsh strain Mary, though I well remember the awful chapel guy 'pesticided' in his greenhouse! I think I had put it down to chapel rather than Welsh- I'm thinking of Humphrey Shadbolt's father (well, not father actually, was it? ) in 'A Calf For Venus' , aka 'Letty'. And the two terrible Davids , Glenny in Road to Revelation and the murderous David Armstrong in House at Sunset. All from chapel backgrounds . Actually Dave Glenny and his dreadful old uncle may have been Welsh come to think if it!
Thanks for Henry Treece , I haven't read him yet- I'll put him in my neverending To Read List.........
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