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BookStop · 1st July 2008, 08:50 AM

My 13 yr old just finished The Falconer's Knot. She read it in about 2 days, really hardly put it down at all while we were home. She is insisting that I will like it, and I am putting it next on my list to read.

I have noticed the reviews for your books are all wonderful and quite often read by adults as well as the younger crowd. While I haven't read them yet, I still find it simply fantastic when books appeal to all ages. It is so refreshing having books to discuss with younger people, and seeing that thier ideas, opinions, and conclusions are not so different than mine.

Mary Hoffman · 1st July 2008, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by BookStop

My 13 yr old just finished The Falconer's Knot. She read it in about 2 days, really hardly put it down at all while we were home. She is insisting that I will like it, and I am putting it next on my list to read.

I have noticed the reviews for your books are all wonderful and quite often read by adults as well as the younger crowd. While I haven't read them yet, I still find it simply fantastic when books appeal to all ages. It is so refreshing having books to discuss with younger people, and seeing that thier ideas, opinions, and conclusions are not so different than mine.

Thank you Book Stop, and your daughter! I'm so glad she enjoyed it.

My agent thinks my latest historical novel is not a book for teenagers at all - "just a novel" as she put it. I would love Bloomsbury to market them as adult novels too but so far no luck.

Mary

BookStop · 11th July 2008, 10:14 AM

Read it in 2 days myself, and that's saying something as we've been really busy around here and I had to stay up really late last night to finish it. I just didn't want to put it down. I can't believe my daughter guessed who the friary murderer was. She's good; I was stumped until the very end.

Mary Hoffman · 11th July 2008, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BookStop

Read it in 2 days myself, and that's saying something as we've been really busy around here and I had to stay up really late last night to finish it. I just didn't want to put it down. I can't believe my daughter guessed who the friary murderer was. She's good; I was stumped until the very end.

Congratulations to your daughter, Bookstop - she's the first person I have heard of to guess the murderer! Even though I thought I'd made it reasonably obvious and had "played fair" with the clues.

So glad you liked it too.

Mary

FireDragon-16 · 25th March 2009, 06:10 AM

I read The Falconer's Knot almost a year ago (wow, it's been longer than I thought) while waiting for my copy of Stravaganza #3 to show up. It was really good, I thought the story was well written (they all are) and I loved the characters, especially Chiara.

Mary Hoffman · 4th October 2009, 07:00 PM

The French translation of The Falconer's Knot - "Rouge Crime" - had been shortlisted for a prize at the Cognac Book Festival and I've been invited to go. Whoopee!

Mark Robson · 8th October 2009, 01:35 PM

So that's why you're not coming to lunch with us! Congrats, Mary. And good luck.

Mary Hoffman · 9th October 2009, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark Robson

So that's why you're not coming to lunch with us! Congrats, Mary. And good luck.

Thank you, Mark! Yes, I have to sign books alongside Jeffrey Archer - they didn't warn me about that.

Mark Robson · 19th October 2009, 12:15 AM

Many congrats. I hear on the grapevine that you won. Marvellous!

Mary Hoffman · 19th October 2009, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark Robson

Many congrats. I hear on the grapevine that you won. Marvellous!

Ah yes, that good old grapevine with the knitted hat!

Thank you.

Mary

Mary Hoffman · 11th June 2010, 09:56 PM

And now The Falconer's Knot has been shortlisted for ANOTHER prize in France! bet I won't win that one - lightning not striking twice in the same place and all.

They've invited me to go and it's in the South of France but I can't! Isn't that the pits?

feorin · 9th June 2012, 12:01 AM

I don't think anyone's said anything about The Falconer's Knot in a while... (which is a little sad, because I think it's a wonderful book).

But hey, what do you know - it's available in Japanese too, with a lovely cover.

Mary Hoffman · 14th June 2012, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by feorin

I don't think anyone's said anything about The Falconer's Knot in a while... (which is a little sad, because I think it's a wonderful book).

But hey, what do you know - it's available in Japanese too, with a lovely cover.

I missed this - thank you!

Haidi · 31st January 2013, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark Robson

Congrats to Mary for being shortlisted for the Guardian Prize with her new book, The Falconer's Knot, a historical fiction novel full of murder, mystery, mayhem and monks! I'm looking forward very much to reading it (got it today) and will put up a review as soon as I can.

Hi!
I'm starting the Falconer's Knot soon (only until now... whoops!) and I would like to ask that does it happen also in Italy?

Haidi

Mary Hoffman · 31st January 2013, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Haidi

Hi!
I'm starting the Falconer's Knot soon (only until now... whoops!) and I would like to ask that does it happen also in Italy?

Haidi

Yes it does!

1st July 2008, 08:50 AM	#16 (permalink)
BookStop If you see a stranger... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Missouri Posts: 2,405 Blog Entries: 6	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman My 13 yr old just finished The Falconer's Knot. She read it in about 2 days, really hardly put it down at all while we were home. She is insisting that I will like it, and I am putting it next on my list to read. I have noticed the reviews for your books are all wonderful and quite often read by adults as well as the younger crowd. While I haven't read them yet, I still find it simply fantastic when books appeal to all ages. It is so refreshing having books to discuss with younger people, and seeing that thier ideas, opinions, and conclusions are not so different than mine.

11th July 2008, 10:14 AM	#18 (permalink)
BookStop If you see a stranger... Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Missouri Posts: 2,405 Blog Entries: 6	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman Read it in 2 days myself, and that's saying something as we've been really busy around here and I had to stay up really late last night to finish it. I just didn't want to put it down. I can't believe my daughter guessed who the friary murderer was. She's good; I was stumped until the very end.

25th March 2009, 06:10 AM	#20 (permalink)
FireDragon-16 Chelsea Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Washington Posts: 382	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman I read The Falconer's Knot almost a year ago (wow, it's been longer than I thought) while waiting for my copy of Stravaganza #3 to show up. It was really good, I thought the story was well written (they all are) and I loved the characters, especially Chiara.

4th October 2009, 07:00 PM	#21 (permalink)
Mary Hoffman Writer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 516	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman The French translation of The Falconer's Knot - "Rouge Crime" - had been shortlisted for a prize at the Cognac Book Festival and I've been invited to go. Whoopee!

8th October 2009, 01:35 PM	#22 (permalink)
Mark Robson Dragon Writer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 2,186	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman So that's why you're not coming to lunch with us! Congrats, Mary. And good luck.

19th October 2009, 12:15 AM	#24 (permalink)
Mark Robson Dragon Writer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 2,186	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman Many congrats. I hear on the grapevine that you won. Marvellous!

11th June 2010, 09:56 PM	#26 (permalink)
Mary Hoffman Writer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 516	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman And now The Falconer's Knot has been shortlisted for ANOTHER prize in France! bet I won't win that one - lightning not striking twice in the same place and all. They've invited me to go and it's in the South of France but I can't! Isn't that the pits?

9th June 2012, 12:01 AM	#27 (permalink)
feorin Registered User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 9	Re: The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman I don't think anyone's said anything about The Falconer's Knot in a while... (which is a little sad, because I think it's a wonderful book). But hey, what do you know - it's available in Japanese too, with a lovely cover.

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