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Sword at Sunset: Question Nine
Rosemary Sutcliff is best known as a children's author. Have you read any of her works for younger readers? If so, how does Sword at Sunset feel more adult?
Also, there was a bowdlerised edition published for younger readers, though I've not read that. Do you have any thoughts there?
Comments
I'm pretty sure I read this version as a younker, so no opinion. If I read any of her children's books as a lad, and I read several of her books, I didn't notice any difference.
I've never read her before. Certainly, this book feels like it's for adults.
Eagle of the Ninth (both book and film versions) but not many others. Reading the book was a long time ago and I remember nothing much except the overall plot.
I'd probably pitch this as teenage rather than adult or children's if I had to classify it. Yes there was the early sex scene but it was hardly very explicit, and I don't think many places would consider it too far gone in either sex or violence to move it out of a YA section.