I wonder at what point, though, she decided she didn't like them? What I mean is, the Marlows of the middle books seem different to me from the earliest books. Their values and behaviour are different, I think. But Run Away Home seems much more a return to the Marlows of Falconers' Lure. It's hard to explain, but I see it in the way that they are so routinely respectful towards their dad in FL (although his behaviour often seems pretty arbitrary) and Giles (ditto) in Runaway Home. By contrast, the older male in RMF, Edwin, is treated with a marked lack of respect, and to me all those family dynamics make it a much more interesting book!
I feel that in the middle books AF herself is reflecting some of value changes of her time - and is genuinely interested in a lot of the social changes that are going on - but in Run Away Home it is as if all that is pushed away, and we're back in the world of a 1950s family style adventure, any hints of modernity (Judith's teenage pregnancy) very cursory and not explored at all...
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Date: 2009-01-13 09:51 am (UTC)I feel that in the middle books AF herself is reflecting some of value changes of her time - and is genuinely interested in a lot of the social changes that are going on - but in Run Away Home it is as if all that is pushed away, and we're back in the world of a 1950s family style adventure, any hints of modernity (Judith's teenage pregnancy) very cursory and not explored at all...