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Post by Claire on Dec 29, 2007 19:50:57 GMT 1
Hi all, Wondering if anyone can answer this query. In the first book in the Punchbowl series, No Mistaking Corker, Dion is said to be 2 years older than Peter, who is 7, making him 9. Lindsey is I think about 11 in this book, so older than him. However in The last one in series The Wild One, Lindsey is said to be the youngest of all the family bar Peter., who is 10 in this book. Lindsey is 14ish. If Dion is 2 years older than Peter he should be 12 and younger than Lindsey! Unfortunately I don't have any of the other books in series to hand to check them, I have a feeling Dion is older than Lindsey in some of the other books too. If anyone has a mo and has any of the series to hand I would love to know what age the pair are in other books, and when did Dion get older than Lindsey? Sorry to be such a nerd but these things bug me!
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Post by haffyfan on Dec 30, 2007 14:51:51 GMT 1
No idea, erm...not a fan.....but Exmoorfan is my Monica expert.
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Post by exmoorfan on Jan 2, 2008 0:36:34 GMT 1
Hi Claire , I will check out the ages..But not having read The Wild one yet may not be of help..
Dion is th eldest..Lindsey next and Peter the youngest in the books I have read..
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Post by exmoorfan on Jan 2, 2008 11:46:24 GMT 1
Hi Claire..Well I'm a bad fan..lol...In Punchbowl Midnight Andrea is 15 , Lindsey 12 , so far it just says Dion is younger and peter younger still..I haven't currently got Black Hunting Whip, so can't check that yet . In Cownappers..Andrea is nearly 17 and peter 10..Haven't come across the others ages yet..Will look at some more later..
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Post by Claire on Jan 2, 2008 14:13:55 GMT 1
Thanks for looking exmoorfan. Unfortunately dont have any of the other books to check myself. Don't have many as sold a lot of them but the ones I do have are packed away and cant get at them. I have a feeling that in some of the books apart from Wild One Dion is older. In No Mistaking Corker however he is definitely younger, it says:
"(Peter) is only seven but can swim and ride nearly as well as Dion who's two years older."
Also in that book Andrea is nearly 14 and Lindsey I think about 3 years younger. So Andrea seems to be 4 years older than Dion which would have made him about 12 or 13 by the end of the series when she is 17. However he seems to miraculously get older at some point in the series as he overtakes Lindsey in age!
I was just wondering if it could be a mistake in the Wild One or he actually does get older in some of the books before that??
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Post by exmoorfan on Jan 3, 2008 20:35:22 GMT 1
Hi again Claire.. I'm sure this is not something I'd noticed before which is why I thought Dion was older that Lindsey..He also acted older...In The Outsider Andrea is 17 ,Peter 10 and it says that Dion and Lindsey are next to Andrea in age.!! In Fire in the Punchbowl Andrea is 17 Dion 14 Lindsey younger and peter 10.. So I think it must be a writers blip....:-)
I had noticed some discrepancies of other facts in hers..(please don't ask me as memory is bad) if i discover them again I will post them...
I am now fixed on it and will have to look at them all in due course..lol
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Post by Claire on Jan 3, 2008 22:22:35 GMT 1
Thanks for that. You're probably going to be cursing me from now on as you won't be able to read any of the Punchbowl series again without obsessivley searching for ages!
I'd be interested to know the other discrepancies too.
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Post by kunuma on Jan 17, 2008 17:04:46 GMT 1
It's odd, but I have always thought that No Mistaking Corker seems completely at odds with the rest of the series - it is the only one written in the first person by Lyndsey, and the whole atmosphere of the book is different. I often wonder if it was written before ME bought the real Punchbowl. You are right too in that the ages given in No Mistaking Corker do not fit with the rest of the books. In them, it works out that when Peter is 10, Lydsey is 14 Dion 15 and Andrea 17 The animals do not follow on properly from that first book either, the foal from Rose of Sharon is mentioned once more, but never materialises, and someone loses the parrot! My theory is that N Mistaking C was a "made up" story, but the rest of the series are based on real animals and people.
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Post by kunuma on Jan 24, 2008 23:06:08 GMT 1
I just reread the Punchbowl/Westling series - because they run concurrently it gets VERY confusing trying to put them in order! It does seems as though No Mistaking Corker is at odds, ages wise , with all the others. I had forgotten just how exciting a life they all lead, especially the Romney Marsh ones, what with Foot and Mouth sieges, stolen horses, stolen flocks of sheep, blowing up dams, the entire Westling village being flooded and then the lifeboat capsizing (the body count in that one would do justice to a Rambo movie LOL)
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Post by exmoorfan on Jan 25, 2008 10:26:36 GMT 1
They did have exciting lives didn't they Kunuma.....I loved the farm ones also especially when the westling children were staying with them..
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Post by exmoorfan on Feb 4, 2008 9:25:49 GMT 1
The “Punchbowl Farm” books form Monica Edwards’ other main series. The characters are introduced in No Mistaking Corker (1947), which describes a summer holiday in a horse-drawn caravan. This, however, is a forerunner rather than the first book of the series: the story is narrated by Lindsay Thornton, and Dion appears as a younger brother. Black Hunting Whip (1950) is the real beginning of the series: the book is in the third person, Dion is now an older brother, and this remains constant for the series.
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Post by exmoorfan on Feb 4, 2008 9:30:02 GMT 1
Hi Claire, further to our discussion on this..I have found this in the Australian collectors which reveals the age aspect we were seeking.. See above clip from the bit about thier ages.
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