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A review by b00kh0arder
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
5.0
When her father dies, orphaned Maria Merryweather, along with her loyal & loving governess Miss Heliotrope, and vain spaniel Wiggins, is taken off to a valley in the West Country to live at Moonacre Manor, the home of her only living relative, Sir Benjamin Merryweather, who she has never met. The valley is a beautiful place, but its apparent serenity is not allit seems, and old wrongs will have to be righted if everyne is to live happily. As this is a Folio edition, the book is, obviously, physically gorgeous- solidly made, with beautiful illustrations by Debra MacFarlane & an introduction by writer and columnist Jane Shilling.
The story itself is a sweet one. Yes, there are things that wouldn't/don't really fly today, but to that I say you have to remember that this is a story set in the 1840s written by someone in the 1940s, and if that every piece of art had to conform to the cultural and social mores of each era it's viewed in, we wouldn't have any art that lasts longer than 5 minutes, and we certainly wouldn't have any classics.
It does sometimes veer dangerously into the bucolic and overly twee, but the prose keeps it just on the right side of both.
The story itself is a sweet one. Yes, there are things that wouldn't/don't really fly today, but to that I say you have to remember that this is a story set in the 1840s written by someone in the 1940s, and if that every piece of art had to conform to the cultural and social mores of each era it's viewed in, we wouldn't have any art that lasts longer than 5 minutes, and we certainly wouldn't have any classics.
It does sometimes veer dangerously into the bucolic and overly twee, but the prose keeps it just on the right side of both.