The Wind on the Moon

Praise

"Eric Linklater is not primarily a novelist, or an essayist or a dramatist. He is above all else an enchanting prose poet. These fragments of wonderful singing prose are scattered all over his books, and through them English literature is permanently enriched." —George Mackay Brown

“Hand it to your youngest and he will undoubtedly be highly entertained by the saga of Dinah and Dorinda and their misdeeds; give it to your best friend and he will be entertained by the delicate satire on every page.” –The Boston Globe

“Eric Linklater’s delightful fantasy belongs in that section of the bookshelf alongside “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Jungle Book,” and “The Wind in the Willows” because it shares the same quality of believable magic….I am sure that I will not be speaking for myself alone when I say that I became as deeply engrossed and completely credulous in following the adventures of Dinah and Dorinda…as I was when I first fell under the spell of Mowgli and his animal companions…Perhaps the most subtly ingenious and satisfying thing about the book is that it is really wish fulfillment, and when a fantasy for children is well enough written, as this is, it makes those wishes valid again in adult memory….A wholly charming book, and one which you’ll want to give to all your favorite friends of the pigtail set. But don’t forget to keep a copy for yourself.” –The Saturday Review

“A wildly eccentric adventure of two sisters who set out on a complicated mission to rescue their father from prison in an enemy country. With a motley crew of characters, including not only the obligatory governess but also a splendid dancing master, this is a gloriously unpredictable tale of escalating bad behavior, magical transformations, slapstick humor, sophisticated satire and, throughout, a war-time preoccupation with food, involving irresistibly detailed lists.” –The Guardian

"Eric Linklater's The Wind on the Moon (1944), winner of the Carnegie Award, is a wildly inventive fantasy that just begs to be read aloud." -- Terri Schmitz, The Horn Book Magazine, July/August 2004

“...one of [The WInd on the Moon’s] delights is the cavalier way in which Linklater swings between pure fantasy and the everyday made fantastic.”
--James Meek, The Guardian, 23 February 2005