I've read - uh - *some* of Mark of the Horse Lord - like the beginning and end and then ran away screaming. Major, serious wimp here. But - take a look at this (http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Horse-Lord-Rosemary-Sutcliff/dp/1932425624) for a cover!
I agree about Warrior Scarlet - not my favourite but I appreciate the unflinchingness and lack of soppiness in depicting the society. (Just mentioned The Shield Ring in reply to sartorias - another that does the unflinching well.)
Also just mentioned the male friendship thing to sartorias - I never felt excluded from it as a child though, which is possibly a bit surprising - just liked it. And of course she (and Connie Willis!) does dogs fantastically! Think Cub in Eagle of the Ninth is another reason for my love of it.
You have just aided research enormously, as I was going to go looking for a long online article I read about Sutcliff to show you, which talked about her being forced to stay home in bed and read all day as a child, but while I was looking idly at other covers, I saw her autobiography (Blue Remembered Hills) on Amazon. Don't know how I'd managed to forget there was such a thing, and I shall now have to get it immediately! So thanks twice over - for chat about a favourite author and the discovery. :) (Love the userpic too.)
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I agree about Warrior Scarlet - not my favourite but I appreciate the unflinchingness and lack of soppiness in depicting the society. (Just mentioned The Shield Ring in reply to sartorias - another that does the unflinching well.)
Also just mentioned the male friendship thing to sartorias - I never felt excluded from it as a child though, which is possibly a bit surprising - just liked it. And of course she (and Connie Willis!) does dogs fantastically! Think Cub in Eagle of the Ninth is another reason for my love of it.
You have just aided research enormously, as I was going to go looking for a long online article I read about Sutcliff to show you, which talked about her being forced to stay home in bed and read all day as a child, but while I was looking idly at other covers, I saw her autobiography (Blue Remembered Hills) on Amazon. Don't know how I'd managed to forget there was such a thing, and I shall now have to get it immediately! So thanks twice over - for chat about a favourite author and the discovery. :) (Love the userpic too.)