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Post by Misfit » Wed July 27th, 2011, 5:04 pm

I liked Gabriel Hounds a lot. I need to get more of her books out from the library one of these days.
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Post by Michy » Wed July 27th, 2011, 10:37 pm

I was reading through some of the reviews for one of her books on Amazon, and there were comments that some (many? most?) of her books were revised when they were issued in the American market. For instance, in The Gabriel Hounds in the original British edition Christabel and Charles were first cousins; for the American market they were made second cousins. Some other changes were to make them less "British" (and I guess more understandable for American readers).

Someone commented that The Ivy Tree, in particular, had revisions to "clean it up." Since I haven't read that one, I don't know what the commenter was hinting at. I could post the question, I guess, but I thought someone here might know. I'm just very curious......

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Post by Misfit » Wed July 27th, 2011, 11:30 pm

[quote=""Michy""]I was reading through some of the reviews for one of her books on Amazon, and there were comments that some (many? most?) of her books were revised when they were issued in the American market. For instance, in The Gabriel Hounds in the original British edition Christabel and Charles were first cousins; for the American market they were made second cousins. Some other changes were to make them less "British" (and I guess more understandable for American readers).

Someone commented that The Ivy Tree, in particular, had revisions to "clean it up." Since I haven't read that one, I don't know what the commenter was hinting at. I could post the question, I guess, but I thought someone here might know. I'm just very curious......[/quote]

Oh, that makes sense now. I got slapped by a snark on my Amazon UK review for calling them second cousins when they were first cousins.
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Post by Michy » Wed July 27th, 2011, 11:41 pm

Apparently the publishers figured having a romantic link between first cousins wouldn't go over too well in the US.

I'm curious as to what got "cleaned up" in The Ivy Tree. Guess I'll have to read the book and see if I can figure it out.

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Post by Misfit » Thu July 28th, 2011, 12:27 am

[quote=""Michy""]Apparently the publishers figured having a romantic link between first cousins wouldn't go over too well in the US.

I'm curious as to what got "cleaned up" in The Ivy Tree. Guess I'll have to read the book and see if I can figure it out.[/quote]

One of the comments had said the fathers were identical twins, so that would be some pretty close first cousins.
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Post by Vanessa » Thu July 28th, 2011, 8:40 am

You can marry your first cousin in the UK but it's not thought the best thing to do! You only have to think of royalty.........
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Post by Misfit » Thu July 28th, 2011, 8:45 am

[quote=""Vanessa""]You can marry your first cousin in the UK but it's not thought the best thing to do! You only have to think of royalty.........[/quote]

Lol. At least where I've lived in the US first cousins are more like siblings and it would be rather unusual to see them marry. I'm not surprised they'd change something like that to make it more palatable to the US market.
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Post by Vanessa » Thu July 28th, 2011, 10:13 am

No, I couldn't even think of marrying my first cousins as I am very close to them (in a family way!). :eek:
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Post by Michy » Thu July 28th, 2011, 8:28 pm

I did have a "crush" on one of my cousins when I was a young girl, and I loved hanging around my slightly-older male cousins during my teens. But as to marrying any of them? Ugh, no. None of them have aged well. ;)

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Post by SGM » Thu July 28th, 2011, 9:53 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]One of the comments had said the fathers were identical twins, so that would be some pretty close first cousins.[/quote]

Their fathers were definitely twins in the version I read. It also seemed that they had been brought up fairly closely as children and they looked fairly similar too.
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