A Perfect Gentle Knight
Spent the day hand-coding HTML, so I’m just not in the mood for blogging. But on my way to Veronica Mars, I’ll mention this fantastic book you should read, by Kit Pearson.
She’s such an accomplished writer that even if A Perfect Gentle Knight didn’t brim with surprising detail and events, her perfect grasp of child psyches would make it a page-turner. It’s 1957 and the six Bell children are coping with their mother’s death by falling deeper and deeper into the family game of pretend Camelot. But playing and healing are two different things, particularly for 11-year-old protagonist Corrie. The inevitable bruises of growing up are especially painful to witness here, as are the deep losses of childhood.