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Sally Carson



Sylvia ‘Sally’ Carson, the youngest of three sisters, was born in 1902 in Surrey and brought up by her widowed mother in Dorset. She attended Bournemouth High School then studied dance and gymnastics at Bedford College, followed by several years working as a publisher’s reader and teaching dance; she also wrote an unpublished novel called Where is Solitude? (now lost). During this time she often went to stay in Bavaria with friends; it was first in Germany and then back in England that she wrote her trilogy of novels, Crooked Cross (1934), The Prisoner (1936) and A Traveller Came By (1938). Crooked Cross was performed as a play in Birmingham in 1935 and later in London; the play was published in a volume on its own in 1938. That year she ma ...more

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‎Crooked Cross

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4.31 avg rating — 1,810 ratings — published 1934 — 17 editions
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The Prisoner

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“The country was like a person tossing in a frightened sleep, half conscious yet half unconscious of the nightmare into which, on awaking, it was to be so abruptly plunged.”
Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

“From the moment that those running footsteps had come clamoring towards her, Lexa for the first time this summer was wide awake. The last warning of the peril in which she and Moritz stood had thundered its way into her consciousness with that sudden impetuous knocking. It had shaken her out of the quiet, doped state where actions and thoughts had been largely instinctive, were all reactions were mercifully numbed. (p. 316-317)”
Sally Carson, ‎Crooked Cross

“Helmy was thrown on his own resources; the resources which he found near at hand and ready to welcome him were those of the Nazi Party.”
Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

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