The Falconer's Knot - Mary Hoffman

[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.

[Mary Hoffman]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Mary Hoffman]

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]

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

[Mary Hoffman]

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