After the End
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trennelsThere will never be any more Antonia Forest novels. We know she was working on an eleventh Marlow book at some point, but it's all too probable that she destroyed the manuscript. What do you think might have been in it? Here are a few unresolved plot points from Run Away Home:
Did the junior (ETA: including Giles and Rowan) Marlows cop it for the events of Run Away Home, and if so, how hard?
What happened with Ginty/Patrick? It's moderately obvious that Patrick thinks it's over, but Ginty doesn't know this. Did he end up with Nicola instead?
Where did Patrick end up doing his A-levels, and what were they? (Personally, I favour the Colebridge Grammar, because 1) Private schools were getting rarer 2) The entire Merrick family wouldn't have to dash down to Dorset every time Kingscote had a school holiday so Patrick would be in the story 3) It seems an awful waste Patrick doing languages at some tough school when what he's really interested in is English and History. Since when were they 'soft options', anyway?)
Did Nicola and Esther make it up?
What happens in the years afterwards, in your heads? What career did she chose, and did she ever sail around the world? Did she ever meet Robert Anquetil again (we seem to have a fandom opinion on this, which is why I asked it)?
What about the other Marlows?
Did the junior (ETA: including Giles and Rowan) Marlows cop it for the events of Run Away Home, and if so, how hard?
What happened with Ginty/Patrick? It's moderately obvious that Patrick thinks it's over, but Ginty doesn't know this. Did he end up with Nicola instead?
Where did Patrick end up doing his A-levels, and what were they? (Personally, I favour the Colebridge Grammar, because 1) Private schools were getting rarer 2) The entire Merrick family wouldn't have to dash down to Dorset every time Kingscote had a school holiday so Patrick would be in the story 3) It seems an awful waste Patrick doing languages at some tough school when what he's really interested in is English and History. Since when were they 'soft options', anyway?)
Did Nicola and Esther make it up?
What happens in the years afterwards, in your heads? What career did she chose, and did she ever sail around the world? Did she ever meet Robert Anquetil again (we seem to have a fandom opinion on this, which is why I asked it)?
What about the other Marlows?
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Date: 2005-08-06 11:26 am (UTC)I think that Miranda would be Head Girl, and Nicola would be Sports.
Lawrie would go to RADA as soon as she'd got her A levels. (Could the Prosser be used for that, or would there be sufficent money, with the elders flying the nest?)
Tim - RADA too, for writing and producing?
Karen would foster or adopt more children - she's settling well into her "methren" role.
Rowan would gratefully had Trennells over to her father, who would retire from the Navy while he's still young enough to enjoy Trennells, and she'd go off to London to do a belated season.
(Hmm! Sudden doubt. Were those evening dresses court or foreign parts? And perhaps she meant (in PR) that she wanted to work in London rather than go to tea-parties dances and dinners?)
Ann - nursing - she's too pi (as opposed to devoted) to be ordained, but that might change. Possibly nursing, then ordination?
Nicola - Wrens, of course.
Ginty - early marriage, as foreseen by Patrick's mother, but not to Patrick, who would eventually do the Persuasion bit with Nicola.
Has Monica got a debs' delight brother?