![]() ![]() Even so, even if he were twenty-two (according to this timeline he is twenty-four), he was still a grown man and she was most certainly a child. It was simply that she was a child and at ten everyone over twenty seems ancient. Did he even exist? She isn’t sure at first, but later she realises that the man she met when she was ten was not as old as all that. The book opens with Polly being nineteen and remembering Tom, whom she had forgotten for years. She’s about ten and he’s a divorced adult man. ![]() OK, if you haven’t read Fire and Hemlock, there will be spoilers in this post, so click the Read More button at your own risk. This story is a Tam Lin re-telling, and although I am interested in the ballad and interpretations of it, and this book is one of my favourite DWJs, I’ve always felt uncomfortable about the relationship between Polly (Jones’s Janet) and Thomas Lynn. Inspired by this Guardian blog post, I chose Fire and Hemlock as my third Diana Wynne Jones re-read. ![]()
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