He was a great light in my formative reading, and is another example of someone who is sometimes classed as a children's writer, but is a writer for readers of any age. Not a sniff of dumbing down, he makes his readers work.
As an early teen, I felt nuances in 'The Owl Service' that I did not yet really understand, could only sense. It was the same with 'Red Shift'. I read it, partly understood it and partly didn't, quite, and years later, was still unpacking that first reading. Such is his stature. Mary Renault was another such.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x86j
As an early teen, I felt nuances in 'The Owl Service' that I did not yet really understand, could only sense. It was the same with 'Red Shift'. I read it, partly understood it and partly didn't, quite, and years later, was still unpacking that first reading. Such is his stature. Mary Renault was another such.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x86j
