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Lucy M. Boston

Born

in Southport, The United Kingdom

December 10, 1892

Died

May 25, 1990

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Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), born Lucy Maria Wood, was an English novelist who wrote for children and adults, publishing her work entirely after the age of 60. She is best known for her "Green Knowe" series: six low fantasy children's novels published by Faber between 1954 and 1976. The setting is Green Knowe, an old country manor house based on Boston's Cambridgeshire home at Hemingford Grey. For the fourth book in the series, A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961), she won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[1]

During her long life, she distinguished herself as a writer, mainly of children’s books, and as the creator of a magical garden. She was also an accompl ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 17,860 ratings · 1,419 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1) by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston (Illustrator), Brett Helquist (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,074 ratings — published 1954 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasure of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #2) by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 2,370 ratings — published 1958 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River at Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #3) by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston 3.87 avg rating — 1,356 ratings — published 1959 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Enemy at Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #5) by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston 4.07 avg rating — 1,254 ratings — published 1964 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Stranger at Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #4) by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 1,170 ratings — published 1961 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stones of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #6) by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of Green Knowe and The River at Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1&3) 4.12 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 1959 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Egg by Lucy M. Boston, Peter Boston (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1967 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Castle of Yew by Lucy M. Boston, Margery Gill (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curfew & Other Eerie Tales by Lucy M. Boston, Robert Lloyd Parry (Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Green Knowe (6 books)
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“What's thought cannot be unthought.”
― L. M. Boston

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“The moon shone in the rocking horsr's eye, and in the mouse's eye, too, when Tolly fetched it out from under his pillow to see. The clock went tick-tock, and in the stillness he heard little bare feet running across the floor, then laughter and whispering, and a sound like the pages of a big book being turned over. ”
― L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe

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“if somthing accurs outside wht we call the natural order,its very smallness may be more immediately unnerving than,for istance,the eclipse of the sun to a tribe without astronomy,where holy awe must override any other feeling. very small cracks in our outer sell of reason let in very cold air.

memory in a house,1973”
― Lucy M. Boston

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