Chess Dream in a Garden (1993) #ChessDreamInAGarden
Dawn Wind (1961) #DawnWind
Eagle's Egg (1981) #EaglesEgg
Eagle's Honour (1995) #EaglesHonour
Flame-Coloured Taffeta (1986) #FlameColouredTaffeta
Frontier Wolf (1980) #FrontierWolf
#ReadingRosemarySutcliff

The little lost cottage in the woods by Denman's Rife
had been empty & hearth-cold so long that nobody remembered it was there at all. ... (and) at the
hearth end, ragged wings of thatch still clung to the
weather-rotted rafters ...
#FlameColouredTaffeta
#RosemarySutcliffFirstLines

Cover of original edition of Flame-Coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff

First page of Rosemary Sutcliff's Flame Coloured Taffeta

Rosemary Sutcliff's #FlameColouredTaffeta (1986) is set in England in the 1700s. It is the story of a 12-year-old girl living near a smugglers' coast. Her life is changed when people bring a mysterious wounded man ashore.

The places of my growing-up feature in Rosemary Sutcliff’s #FlameColouredTaffeta —
Itchenor village in NW of the Manhood; Selsey village at South point; Wittering village in W; Birdham village in NW; Earnley village in W; Chichester city; Chichester Cathedral; Chichester Harbour.