My Brother Michael (by Mary Stewart)

I have read and liked novels by Mary Stewart for over forty years. I discovered some of her books in the ‘senior library’ at my secondary school, and loved her writing style. She was one of the first writers of ‘romantic thrillers’, and while as a teenager I liked the romance (always very low-key) better than the thrills, I knew too that she was a good story-teller.

In recent years, many of her lesser-known novels have been published. When I like an author, I like to collect all their works,...