My Daughter, Nicola

Ruth M. Arthur

Children's Books

Collins

Whistling Boy (Armada)

The autumn ghosts

Target Books

Candlemas mystery

Convinced that her father did not love her because she was not born a boy, young Nicola Juler dreamed of the day when she could prove to him that daughters are as good as sons. Mostly content with her life in a small village - lying at the feet of "the most magnificent mountain in the whole of Switzerland," Nicola's days were filled with school during the winter, and caring for the dairy cows in the high pastures during the summer. But just as the Mountain was always there, a sort-of personality in its own right, so too was Nicola's conviction that her father's approval might be won through some act of daring. It was during one of her stays at the high-pasture summer-camp that the idea came to Nicola to climb down into the Mountain itself, into the old, long-abandoned mines.... Although this early novel by Ruth M. Arthur stands alone, in that it is one of her only works to contain no supernatural element, it does address some of the themes to which she would return in her later novels. The complicated workings of families - simultaneously joyful and pained - are handled with the sensitivity and humor that would become a hallmark of Arthur's work. The importance of compassion and tolerance, exemplified in this instance by Nicola's friendship with the Italian "other" Carlotta, is a theme the author revisited in later books as well. In sum: well-worth reading. It is a shame that this author remains out-of-print. Another note: although almost all of Arthur's novels were illustrated by the excellent Margery Gill, this was the exception, with black and white drawings by Fermin Rocker ( amazon customer)

Atheneum

<p>What Romilly Williams doesn't know -- but the reader, through a lengthy flashback, does -- is that she's fated to live out the spell placed on her great grandmother and namesake by handsome, evil Rodger Graham before his sudden disappearance. On her summer vacation on the Scottish island of Karasay, Romilly falls in love with the ghost of the earlier Romilly's beau Jocelyn Parsons and is haunted by the long-dead Rodger, until she finds his skeleton in the cave where he practiced black magic and completes the exorcism with the help of eccentric old Miss Minnie. Romilly returns to art school in Edinburgh -- to meet Jocelyn's look-alike descendant at a "fancy-dress ball," and if Ruth Arthur is unable to make anything of all this witchery except a conventional middle-class match, the aura is properly ethereal while it lasts.</p>

The Autumn People

On the Wasteland

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Flap: This is a book that spans six hundred years. It begins with the marriage, in about 1300, of fifteen year old Melisande, a girl of southern France to Sir Hugh de Hervey, six years older than herself and an English knight and landowner. With her to England, Melisande takes a very special lamp, a lamp of gold and jewels, made for her by a saracen servant in her father's household. The lamp becomes the spirit and treasure of the de Hervey household.

The Saracen Lamp

While visiting a friend on the English seacoast, Harriet discovers a sixteen-year-old boy who has run away from a school of detention.

After Candlemas

Through the magic of gypsies who periodically camp on her sheep farm in Wales, Hannah experiences excitement, fear, change, and finally peace.

An Old Magic

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

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My Daughter, Nicola

Whistling Boy (Armada)

The autumn ghosts

Candlemas mystery

My Daughter, Nicola

The Autumn People

On the Wasteland

The Saracen Lamp

After Candlemas

An Old Magic