Aquila is not Rosemary, but his distance from the world around him takes it’s truthfulness from her own.I didn’t expect to like this book, really. This book follows one individual through many difficult years, through trauma and heartbreak, determination and loyalty, and an unvoiced wrestling with himself and how he is in the world.When I learned that the author had been isolated through her childhood, enduring the crippling pain of her disability, it resonated with what I knew of the main character here. I appreciate a writer with the confidence to allow me to really see where I am, where my characters are, to live and breathe with them, the quiet moments as well as the ferocious ones, to see what is different in their world and what I recognise from my own. I am pulled into the story but not hurled into it. The characters are well drawn and I care very much what happens to them.
I could not have asked anything more of this book. I am a reader who loves excellent writing that doesn’t interfere with the flow of a story. I've long been curious about Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels, but I don’t think I’d ever read one before The Lantern Bearers.
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