King Henry is dead and everyone is delighted – but his little son is a dangerous king.
Ships I can manage, but humans, now that’s different.
Tell young Lucy to stay in the kitchen and do what she’s told!
Big ships and little ships but it’s not all plain sailing.
Go and get killed for a man you don’t even like?
LUCY DRAGONFLY takes its readers into new worlds .
Harry comes home from ice and frozen seas, minus two fingers but safe from bears, and finds just as much trouble in Canterbury, where new ways of thinking are clashing together like icebergs. He is pitched into a difficult task, and is sure of just one thing, that young Lucy can’t help him. He’s wrong there.
Jan Shirley has published many excellent translations but her heart is in writing fiction. Her stories are set in the past, where the problems her characters have to cope with are the kind that never really go away. In LUCY DRAGONFLY people are killing each other in the name of religion, or if they’re lucky they’re escaping to a safe country, but even there they may not be welcome. Other things are important too – will Harry be home in time for Ellie’s wedding, and what colour will Ellie wear to be married in?
Ships I can manage, but humans, now that’s different.
Tell young Lucy to stay in the kitchen and do what she’s told!
Big ships and little ships but it’s not all plain sailing.
Go and get killed for a man you don’t even like?
LUCY DRAGONFLY takes its readers into new worlds .
Harry comes home from ice and frozen seas, minus two fingers but safe from bears, and finds just as much trouble in Canterbury, where new ways of thinking are clashing together like icebergs. He is pitched into a difficult task, and is sure of just one thing, that young Lucy can’t help him. He’s wrong there.
Jan Shirley has published many excellent translations but her heart is in writing fiction. Her stories are set in the past, where the problems her characters have to cope with are the kind that never really go away. In LUCY DRAGONFLY people are killing each other in the name of religion, or if they’re lucky they’re escaping to a safe country, but even there they may not be welcome. Other things are important too – will Harry be home in time for Ellie’s wedding, and what colour will Ellie wear to be married in?
