Within the pages of K. M. Peyton's Flambards trilogy, Flambards, The Edge of the Cloud, and Flambards in Summer, are showcased the young adult author's critically acclaimed skills: her accurate and powerful descriptions of physical activities and sensations, her detailed and realistic characterizations, and her perceptive narration of the social history of England. "It is clear that ... Peyton's books deal with themes and interests of a rather wider and deeper kind than one finds in most children's books," maintains Dennis Butts in The Use of English. "The presence of death, the awareness of sexual love, the importance of money, give her novels an unusual texture for which their romantic structures provide a successful and accessible framework." Praising the author's storytelling abilities, Louis Claibourne asserts in Spectator: "Mrs. Peyton, you simply have to take my word for it, is what stumped reviewers call "compulsively readable.' You have to turn the page, hear the next conversation, see the next bit of action." Peyton, contends M.S. Crouch in Junior Bookshelf, "is a born story- teller."
Suburban Horses
The first stories that emerged from Peyton's young imagination were born despite the suburban landscape into which she was born.
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