"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Il Carnegie Medal in Literature è un premio che viene assegnato annualmente a scrittori per bambini fu istituito nel 1936 in onore del filantropo scozzese Andrew Carnegie. Maggie Prince draws a vivid picture too of the wild landscape of the Border Country and the eternal teenage struggle to break free of childhood and lead an independent life.
The reader is immediately taken on a journey to Elizabethan England - the country, not the city - and the smells and sounds are vividly brought to life. This is an exceptionally atmospheric novel, written in the first person through the voice of this feisty Elizabethan teenager. She is also growing very close to the young parson, John Becker. A smouldering tension of love and intimacy develops between patient and carer, but that isn't the only possible relationship for Beatie. Through guilt she determines to nurse this enemy back to health, despite the terrible danger to herself which could have her burned at the stake. Next day, Beatie finds a dirty, bleeding body in the old hermit's hut in the wood, and discovers that it belongs to the Scot she pushed from the window. It is the first Scot she has injured, probably killed.
It is a young face and one that Beatie will never forget. But the Scots do invade and Beatie has to push at the face of one of them who appears - courtesy of a grappling iron - at an upper window. The family live in Barrowbeck Tower - a stronghold which should keep out invaders. She is too busy being the elder daughter and watching over her family - overseeing the kitchen work riding her horse, Saint Hilda, and most importantly keeping a watchful eye out for the first sign of marauding Scots from over the border. Sixteen year old Beatie, the daughter of a North Country farmer is defying her family over the matter of her proposed marriage to her cousin Hugh. The year is 1578 and Queen Elizabeth 1 is on the throne. Strong historical fiction and powerful romantic drama set in border country during Elizabethan times - forbidden passions and family loyalties heresy and witchcraft, but at the heart of it, the burgeoning love of a young girl.
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