Lucy M. Boston - Books

Books

Green Knowe series

• The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
• The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958); U.S. title, 'Treasure of Green Knowe
• The River at Green Knowe (1959)
• A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961)
• An Enemy at Green Knowe (1964)
• The Stones of Green Knowe (1976)

The Green Knowe series was published by Faber and Faber and also in Puffin Books.

Other fiction

• Yew Hall (1954)
• The Sea Egg (1967)
• The Castle of Yew (1968)
• Persephone aka Strongholds (1969)
• The House That Grew (1969)
• The Horned Man: Or, Whom Will You Send To Fetch Her Away (1970)
• Nothing Said (1971)
• The Guardians of the House (1974)
• The Fossil Snake (1975)

Lucy M. Boston also wrote a short story called "Curfew" which appeared in the anthology The House of the Nightmare: and other Eerie Tales, published in 1967.

Her novel "Persephone" is a Young Adult story which deserves high praise, and should stand alongside the teenage novels of Rumer Godden and Elizabeth Goudge, the books about the angst of adolescence, the joy and terror of early sexuality, the love and agony that comes with Christian faith, and loss of faith. The young girl in the story flees the sexual advances of her step-father, seeks solace in a convent, and then suffers madness and desperation as she falls in love with an aristocratic half-crazed artist. In 2011, Boston's supernatural tales were collected in the volume Curfew & Other Eerie Tales (Dublin: Swan River Press). This volume includes unpublished tales as well as a reprint of the two act play The Horned Man.

Perverse and Foolish and Memory in a House were published together in 1992 under the title Memories, with an Introduction by Jill Paton Walsh and linking passage and postscript by Peter Boston. Publisher: Colt Books Ltd. Cambridge.