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Jan Pienkowski’s vision & Joan Aiken’s story ‘An Ill Wind’ from ‘A Foot in the Grave’ Today sees the publication of an elegant new edition of Joan Aiken and Jan Pienkowski’s ghostly collaboration A Foot in The Grave is coming out just in time for Hallowe’en… for those who enjoy all things haunting and mysterious […]
I wish more of Joan’s books were available in the US. It looks as though my next UK trip will require a few bookshop visits.
And congratulations to you on your book out today too – Kenning Magic has got some great reviews – I’ll have to make a bookshop visit myself!
Have ordered Kenning Magic too, and looking forward to it!
As for the new edition of A Foot in the Grave I must look out for that as I never got round to it before. Related to this, I have a question. The Winter Sleepwalker has some lovely illustrations by Quentin Blake (they come over well even in the monochrome paperback edition I have) but a note at the beginning says that the quirky stories were inspired by some Jan Pienkowski paintings. And yet we never see them! Are they available anywhere? Attractive though the Blake pictures are I wish we could appreciate the original trigger for Joan’s tales.
Thanks for your support, Lizza. If your bookshop can’t get you a copy, let me know. I’ll be happy to send you one.
I don’t know the full history – sadly in the end those pictures of Jan’s weren’t used, and it was many years later when he was working on this new edition of A Foot in The Grave that Jan brought out the picture above, which had been the original inspiration for Joan’s story Blazing Shadows in what became The Winter Sleepwalker collection. You may recognise the inspiration for Trilla, and the geese bewitched by Mrs Hatecraft. But in a wonderful reversal of fortunes we agreed it perfectly suited the character of Cherry in this story about bewitching, and so Jan’s haunting picture has found its place at last.
But Quentin Blake’s illustrations for The Winter Sleepwalker are utterly beautiful, and should be seen in colour – the recent new edition of that collection is an absolute joy! I can feel another post coming on…
Yay! And I feel another Aiken review coming on…