‘I don’t think I’ve come across another example of authentic Quaker-speak in modern fiction.’ Photo: Book cover of Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont
Brought to book: Kate Macdonald on Elfrida Vipont and The Lark on the Wing
‘She moves the moral centre of the girls’ school story to a powerful Quaker ethos.’
by Kate Macdonald
14th July 2023
In the 1970s, when I was reading my way through Aberdeen Children’s Library, I discovered an old novel from the late 1940s. It was about a girl who decides she wants to be a singer, and all the characters wete Quakers. I had never heard of Quakers, but I gobbled-up the book – The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont – and borrowed it often to reread.
