This Rough Magic (by Mary Stewart)

I do enjoy the late Mary Stewart’s writing, although it’s in rather a different genre from my usual reading. She wrote romantic thrillers in the middle and end of last century, with the romance being quite low-key, and the thrilling part usually not too stressful. I have several of her books, and have been re-reading them over the past year, so I was delighted when I found a few that I didn’t have in a charity shop in September.

I have just finished reading one of them, ‘This Rough Magic’. It...