only one published in the U.S. It was a commended runner-up for the Library Association's Carnegie Medal for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Two modern Marlows books were also commended runners-up, Falconer's Lure for 1957 and Peter's Room for 1961. Forest's books have received critical praise from Victor Watson, who called her 'the Jane Austen' of children's literature, and from Alison Shell, who has studied Forest's theme of recusant Catholicism. They featured in Lucy Mangan's 2012 memoir of favourite childhood reading; she chose the first Marlow book as one of her top picks for a children's library, saying of the series: 'they are dense and complex books, but among the most fulfilling reads I think a child can have. When I first came across C.S. Lewis's adage, "I read to know that I am not alone", it was the Marlows I thought of'. Reissues Years after Forest's books went out of print, they gradually returned to the public eye with a Faber reprint of Autumn Term in 2000. It was followed by Girls Gone By Publishers reprints of Falconer's Lure, Run Away Home, The Marlows and the Traitor, The Ready-Made Family, Peter's Room, and The Thuggery Affair. Girls Gone By reprinted The Player's Boy in 2006, The Players and the Rebels in 2008, and The Thursday Kidnapping in 2009. Since reacquiring the copyright of all Forest's books apart from Autumn Term, Girls Gone By also published new editions of End of Term (2017) and The Cricket Term (2020). They also reprinted The Marlows and the Traitor (2015), Falconer's Lure (2016), Peter's Room (2018), and The Thuggery Affair (2019). In 2011, Girls Gone By published Spring Term, a continuation of the modern Marlow saga by Sally Hayward. See also School story Boarding schools in fiction Notes References External links Hilary Clare (2006), "School Stories Don't Count: The Neglected Genius of Antonia Forest" in Pat Pinsent (ed.) Out of the Attic Collecting Antonia Forest Books 1915 births 2003 deaths English children's writers English Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism English people of Russian-Jewish descent English people of Irish descent Alumni of University College London People educated at South Hampstead High School People from Hampstead Writers from Bournemouth 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers Place of birth missing Place of death missing English women novelists British women children's writers Writers from London