Re-reading childhood favourites...

[lizbee]

I have just finished re-reading The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and I've just begun Black Hearts in Battersea. As I re-read Aiken's Hanover novels, I find myself with just one question:

How is it possible that the BBC hasn't made a series of family-friendly TV movies based on these novels? HOW, I ASK YOU? Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Simon and Billie Piper* as Dido Twite, with cameos by every actor in England as various other characters.

Admit it. Now you're wondering the same thing. MATT SMITH CAN PLAY DOCTOR FIELD. ADMIT IT, THIS IS THE BEST IDEA I'VE EVER HAD!

* Well, yes. Who else?

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[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

I adored The Wolves of Willoughby Chase back around 1978. I never knew at that time that there had been sequels, though I wanted to read the rest of the story. It took me until I was an adult to check on that, but now can't recall how many books were in the series, and I've never tracked them down. I really should do that, shouldn't I? ... Yes.

(Weird little detail: I remember classmates taunting me because I loved a book with Chase in the title, and one of the guys who despised me at that age had that as his last name, so this apparently meant something big to them. Uh-huh. Great way to try to wreck the memory of a good story...)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I only found out that there was a whole series recently, and I was lucky enough to find the first four in a secondhand bookstore. I'm just a bit scared of moving beyond the familiar two...