After attending Oxford, where she became the first woman to ever edit that university's newspaper, Cooper worked as a reporter and feature writer for London's Sunday Times her first boss was James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Ĭooper wrote her first book for young readers in response to a publishing house competition "Over Sea, Under Stone" would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed five-book fantasy sequence, "The Dark Is Rising." The fourth book in the series, "The Grey King," won the Newbery Medal in 1976.
As a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew up in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London. Read the rest of my review at Loopy Ker’s Life.Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" (2013) But, sadly, still no significant female characters. Dogs and dog-like creatures have major roles in this book, for both the Light and the Dark. Bran is an albino with a strict father and a somewhat magical dog, Cafall. But we are introduced to interesting new characters, mainly another boy Will’s age, Bran Davis. The Drew children are not in this book at all and Merriman only appears in a minor role. Richard gave it a different feel that complemented the new setting.Īt first it is a bit of a disappointment, that Will is on his own.
Having never heard Welsh, I have to assume that Richard was doing a good job with the difficult pronunciations and accents of Welsh people speaking English. So here, Welsh is the language for the landscape and native language of the other characters.
But happily, I soon accepted Richard Mitchley’s voice and as the story unfolded, it made a lot of sense to have a different narrator.Īlthough, Will Stanton was in the previous two books, The Dark is Rising and Greenwitch, in this book he loses part of his mind to illness for awhile and travels to family in Wales to recover. I thought nobody would do as well with this book as Alex Jennings had been doing. Ah! Where did Alex Jennings go? After listening to the same narrator for the first three audiobooks in the series, I was initially jolted to hear a different voice for The Grey King.
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