Frances Credo

“What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

“With one hand disturbing a colony of parasitic life forms in his uncombed hair, he yawned loudly.
     ‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching his grubby face. His breath drifted across the space between them making Steve’s nose twitch involuntarily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

“Misfortunes make us wise”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“In Waverley the reader is introduced to one of the great ideas of the modern novel: that reading has the power to mediate and deflect experience. Six”
― Walter Scott, Waverley