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A review by ellenw
Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle
4.0
I recently went back and reread this, which was an odd experience because I'm now much more familiar with A Live Coal in the Sea, which tells Camilla's story when she's an adult.
One thing I love about L'Engle's worlds is that people actually grow up in them, and also that they're all interconnected -- Frank Rowan, who appears as a secondary but important character in this book as a teenager, shows up as a minor character in A House Like a Lotus when he's middle-aged. Camilla grows up and has children in A Live Coal in the Sea. Meg Murry has several books of her own and then has children who get several books of their own. And then of course there are Adam and Zachary, going back and forth between two universes that ought to be more connected but otherwise aren't.
...which is all really about L'Engle's ouevre as a whole, and here I've stuck it into my review of a book that no one's read where no one will read it.
One thing I love about L'Engle's worlds is that people actually grow up in them, and also that they're all interconnected -- Frank Rowan, who appears as a secondary but important character in this book as a teenager, shows up as a minor character in A House Like a Lotus when he's middle-aged. Camilla grows up and has children in A Live Coal in the Sea. Meg Murry has several books of her own and then has children who get several books of their own. And then of course there are Adam and Zachary, going back and forth between two universes that ought to be more connected but otherwise aren't.
...which is all really about L'Engle's ouevre as a whole, and here I've stuck it into my review of a book that no one's read where no one will read it.