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NEW COPIES AT THE STREAKY BAY INSTITUTE LIBRARY.• Royal Escape (Georgette Heyer).Miss Georgette Heycr’s gift* na nn historical novelist have never been more brilliantly displayed tlian in thi* utory of Charles II after Worcester Charles, naturally, dominates the story, which opens, «lt nmuticnlly on tin* day of the battle, with the King desperately but vainly exhorting his Scots troopers to a lust eharpe which might have turned the day. As the Hound heads burst into thecity. Charles is forced to fly, and the•dory gathers both tempo and tension I during his many adventures in the re-i fuges whore he hid—nt White-Lndiw, Boseobel Mouse. Moseley. Ahbotsleigh by Bristol, where he attempts to charter n -hip which will take him to Franco.The journey to Vbbolsloigh with .lane I.line- whom he called My Life—m a charming idyll. Mins lloyei has surely created. with hintorieal accuracy, nomore delightful heroine. We have the encounter with the blacksmith with whom he discussed the desertion ofthat rogue Charles Stewart: the riding boldly past o troop of rebel horse; the meeting with a Mijdiei of Ins own regi incut whom would know tile King at once. Then on to Trent, when- .lane parts from him ami .liiliunon ( miingsby enters the story And so. till at Instsuccessful. Charles reaches Urighthclm stone, hoard* the Sinprise, prohnhly at Smithu irk, and sets sail foi France.Throughout the book events moveswitlly. We see hou the King’s luck | was out imiii the beginning: Leslie us InsGeneral: the lack of popular sympathy;: the death of his brother ui-i.iw William j nf Orange; in* trust in Argyll n* the only j hope of i(’gaining the throne.So miieb is history but a more sympuiletii and human port mil of that complex and much inn«mdntund diameter. f'hai'iY* II. has III’MI been pieceilled b) liistoiiau. biogrnphei m novelist
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Streaky Bay West Coast Sentinel
Streaky Bay, South Australia, AU
Fri, Feb 17, 1939
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