In Red Letter Holiday by Virginia Pye the mother of the family is reading Swallows and Amazons aloud. ‘The older sister loved Ransome’s books and compares his stories to Ontario lakeside cottage life.’ Adam Quinan explained that they are about a British sister and brother evacuated to Canada during the early days of the Second World War. Kit Pearson wrote the Guests of War trilogy ( The Sky is Falling, Looking at the Moon and The Lights Go On Again). Liz Taylorson has recently brought out a romance entitled Summer Showers at Elder Fell Farm that not only features the book Swallows and Amazons but makes quite a thing of Titty’s name. Kathryn Clare Brissenden wrote: ‘In Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher, Judith gets given the latest Arthur Ransome for Christmas. Martin Allott spotted this, explaining, ‘It’s a gentle romance about the love lives of three female friends who set up a wedding planning business… Lindy mentions some favourite books, one of which is Old Peter’s Russian Tales.’ Katie Fforde, president of the Romantic Novelists Association, mentions Arthur Ransome in her novel A Vintage Wedding.
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