![]() ![]() Kate Saunders' Five Children on the Western Front is both an homage and a goodbye to this twilight time. The children Nesbit depicts are both freed from the Victorian rules of their parents and more restricted than children of the mid-20th century, and as such, they live in a sort of golden, idyllic England that only existed for a very brief fragment of time.and possibly, only in the rose-tinted glow of fiction. At the time, I never really noticed that most of her books follow a reliable - even repetitive - pattern (short story mini-adventures of siblings strung out into a novel, often with a grumpy magical creature involved), that her language and attitude is distinctly upper-class, or that they wouldn't really work outside of their own era. Nesbit when I was about eight or nine years old. ![]()
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