It has a thrilling plot interwoven with romance. This Rough Magic also has its fair share of literary quotations, particularly from Shakespeare’s The Tempest from which the title also comes.
However, reading the reviews of her books that have already been posted, several themes seem to emerge: the combination of suspense and romance, a young, spirited female heroine, and the very strong sense of place – Hadrian Wall’s country in The Ivy Tree, Skye in Wildfire at Midnight, Provence in Madam Will You Talk?, the Greek Mainland in My Brother Michael and Corfu in This Rough Magic with its evocation of brilliant sunlight, the subtly different blues of the sky and the sea, the white sands, its highly scented, colourful flowers, its boisterous saint’s festival (St Spiridion) and its young Greek Adonises. Book review by Sylvia D: I’m almost certain I read Mary Stewart novels when I was in my teens but cannot now remember any specific titles or plots.
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