Not only does Meggy have a cover now, she has her first review—from the wonderful Richie Partington of richiespicks.com. He says, among other things, “The first thing that you’ve got to know about Cushman’s latest piece of historical fiction—this one set in London at the dawn of the Elizabethan era—is that there are wonderful waves of high-spirited discourse providing balance to the dire predicaments in which feisty, differently-abled heroine Margret “Meggy” Swann finds herself…Page after page, the pre-Shakespearian London in which the tale is set is delightfully colorful—at least if you are having the thrill of reading Meggy’s descriptions of it and not actually having to live and breathe and smell and taste and step in it every day. Eww! …Ye toads and vipers! Meggy Swann’s coming of age story is way-fun and, thus, my trip through Elizabethan London was come and gone way, way too soon.”
I was delighted to read such a positive response. After all these years, sometimes I still fear that someone will shout, “The author has no clothes!” and I will be found out—a poor writer or worse, no writer at all. Funny how that still happens. I hope you agree with Richie and find that Meggy is lots of fun.
