I love Ransome, as I went on about not so long ago. He is remarkably able to give his young characters kids' feelings (as I remember them at this great distance) utterly without sentimentality.
Indeed. I don't like too much goo in my fiction, but at the same time I do like characters to be well fleshed-out emotionally (well, you know what I mean, I'm not a wordsmith, esp not this evening).
Although the Walkers and Blacketts are lots of fun, I have a great fondness for Coot Club and Big Six. Great Yarmouth completely entranced me. Ransome has such love for what he describes.
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