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THORNY HOLD
by
Mary Stewart

Woman's World

"Skeins of sentences are woven into a tale of sweet magic, witchcraft
and suspense ... which will perpetuate Mrs. Stewart's bestsellerdom
and confirm her status as a literary phenomenon' Scotland on
Sunday Also by the same author, and available from Coronet:

THE CRYSTAL CAVE

THE HOLLOW HILLS

THE LAST ENCHANTMENT

THE WICKED DAY

AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND

THE GABRIEL HOUNDS

THE IVY TREE

MADAM, WILL YOU TALK?

THE MOON SPINNERS

MY BROTHER MICHAEL

NINE COACHES WAITING

THIS ROUGH MAGIC

THUNDER ON THE RIGHT

TOUCH NOT THE CAT

WILDFIRE AT MIDNIGHT

CORONET BOOKS Hodder and Stoughton Mary Stewart and ran the parish, as
one could in those days more than half a century ago- with an iron hand
disguised by no glove at all. She retained her dominance, her vivid
personality, a hint of cruelty in her complete lack of sympathy for
weakness or incompetence. I had, I think, a hard upbringing. And so,
I believe, must she have had. I remember a photograph of my
grandmother, her mother, whom I never met, but whose picture terrified
me through my childhood; scraped-back hair, piercing eyes and a lipless
mouth. She had lived in the wilds of New Zealand and had shown all the