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[toujours_nigel]

I got to reading Sword at Sunset because the folks sporking Mists of Avalon mentioned it quite often, and now I might just die of the Feels.

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[fawatson]

I think Sword at Sunset is Sutcliff's best but all her books are very atmospheric.

These were intended for a teen audience rather than the adult audience intended for SaS (Sutcliff typically wrote for children and teens) but contain the emotive bittersweet quality of the Author at her best:

The Lantern Bearers (which includes Artos as a minor character and is set before SaS)
Frontier Wolf
Mark of the Horse Lord

Some years there is a Sutcliff Swap story exchange. It ran in 2018, did not run this year, but may run next:

https://sutcliff-swap.dreamwidth.org/

[legionseagle]

I can strongly recommend Flowers of Adonis, too, if you haven't read it.

[maplemood]

I remember this book! When I read it it depressed me to the point that I feel like I really need to go back for a reread because I didn't fully appreciate how beautiful it is; there were some absolutely heartbreaking passages, and the writing and characterization were both so, so good, as per usual with Sutcliff.