The Weeping Ash

Two separate threads join into a triumphant knot … very neatly plotted and very entertaining * The Times *Joan Aiken combines a sense of the past with the sophistication of a modern novel full of suspense and excitement … she provides a full spectrum of colours, incidents, character and thought * The Guardian *Robust, stylishly told, and involving many magnetic characters … The Weeping Ash is among the best novels yet from the talented Joan Aiken * Publishers Weekly *Joan Aiken gives us a story that is rich in colourful backgrounds, exciting in action, and with characters so engaging I hated to leave them. One of my favourite authors – Phyllis A. WhitneyAiken beautifully intertwines two remarkable tales to create a cohesive romantic suspense … the fates of these two young women, Fanny and Scylla, are deliberately and intriguingly paralleled, forming the central activity of the novel * A.L.A. Booklist *A big double-barrelled saga … very entertaining * Kirkus *

Joan Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex in 1924, daughter of the American poet Conrad Aiken, and started writing herself at the age of five. From the 1960s she wrote full time and published over 100 books. Best known for her children’s books such as The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place, she also wrote extensively for adults and published many contemporary and historical novels, including sequels to novels by Jane Austen. In 1969 she won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for The Whispering Mountain, followed by an Edgar Allan Poe award for Night Fall in 1972, and was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s literature in 1999. Joan Aiken died in 2004.

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