Literary agent for children's books
LAURA CECIL
Between the Forest and the Hills by Ann Lawrence
Age range: young adult
Part fantasy, part history, BETWEEN THE FOREST AND THE HILLS tells the story of a decaying Romano- British town after the collapse of the Roman Empire, and its relations, friendly and otherwise, with its nearest Saxon neighbours. When it appears that the town is to be raided by the Saxons, the townspeople resort to ingenious plans and tricks to defeat their enemy.
“A witty use of anachronism and a sharp sense of personality and period.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“Ann Lawrence has a lovely gift for description, and can bring a scene or a character clean off the page in one telling and evocative phrase... The reader...will not come away from it much richer in the facts of the Roman withdrawl from Britain. But the story has a ring of intuitive truth about it all the same; and he should bring away something of that, like buttercup pollen on his shoes.”
Rosemary Sutcliff TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Rights : Laura Cecil
Publishers:
US: Bethlehem Books