If you are an adult reader who loved Oliver Twist and other novels by Charles Dickens then you will want your child to read Midnight is a Place. It was first published in 1974 but Joan Aiken is such a skilled writer this book must be considered a classic. We have disposed of this copy but re-reading it over the last two days has convinced me to purchase a new copy. This is another old book from our library collection. Wisdom like this abounds in Midnight is a Place by Joan Aiken. So you make them comfortable and you tell them not to unquiet themselves.” ‘For some people will always be worrying – if only about whether the soup is going to be thick enough or the milk will go sour. … Either you make their lives so much better that they don’t have to worry – or you teach them that worrying doesn’t help, but is only a waste of time.’ … ‘I think both ways together would be best,’ said Anna-Marie. (Aug.“ So how you can you teach people not to worry?’ ‘You ask some large size questions’.
Author of more than two dozen children's books and many adult novels, Aiken has a fine sense of pacing and a sure ear for dialogue. The reader cottons on before Cat does, and enjoys every minute of the denouement, including the just retribution that comes to the evildoers. Cat's meditations on life and the death of her Welsh-Russian mother gradually are overridden by her growing awareness that several unexplained accidents have threatened her life. Black ground turns, almost imperceptibly, from a chatty, albeit sensitive, first-person narrative into a witty murder mystery. When they begin to exchange notes about their pasts, Cat fails to connect Ty's sudden migraine attack and ensuing coldness toward her with her revelation that she had met him years before when she was a trainee nurse and he was at the bedside of a dying patient. Sweeping Cat off her feet, he soon has them honeymooning in Venice, even though they barely know each other. The estate's owner, Lord James Tybold Fortuneswell (a mysterious media mogul who is also a big noise at Pyramid), turns up, and is smitten by Cat-who has been transformed into a silver blonde for the part. Actress Cat (short for Catherine) Conwil has landed a juicy role in a period TV drama being filmed by Pyramid Television on location at Knoyle Court.
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