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Over on my FL wychwood talks about the top ten books of the heart, 'that I read over and over and over when I was young and which felt formational for me in some way'. What are mine? do I have any? remembering that young was a long time ago.

Antonia Forest, End of term

Antonia Forest, Autumn Term

--I so badly wanted to go to Kingscote

Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet

-- most of Nesbit, actually, but that's the one I read over and over, for the time travel

Hilda Lewis, The Ship that Flew

-- again, time travel

Hilda Lewis, The Gentle Falcon

C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

-- my favourite of the bunch, followed by The Horse and his Boy

Edward Eager, Half Magic

Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March

-- my Julius Caesar obsession

Author unknown, The Unwilling Schoolgirl

-- book from my mother's childhood, hence Edwardian, where everyone wore huge hats.