Stormswift

by Madeleine Brent

Book Overview

The year is 1897. Deep in the mountain wilderness of the Hindu Kush, a seventeen year-old English girl is brought to the primitive tribal kingdom of Shul to be sold as a slave. Her ordeal endures for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385190476
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

NEVER A DULL MOMENT!

I discovered a couple Madeleine Brent books on a Free Books rack in the local library entrance hall. That was a lucky day for me! I immediately had to get my mitts on every other of her titles and have done so almost completely. STORMSWIFT was one of the best. I have never encountered a dull moment in any of her books and the heroine is always charmingly pragmatic. You love her personality in the beginning and are amazed to find you love her even more by the end. This one is set in Afghanistan, Pakistan and England. Our heroine suffers, perseveres, and encounters all sorts of interesting characters along her long journeys. Novels in recent years seem to be too well tailored to certain market tastes. You can almost picture novelists sitting with a list of the MOST POPULAR PLOT DEVICES given to them by their publishers before they even start their own story outlines. But Brent simply and consistently tells a ripping good yarn with lots of adventure and heartfelt romanticism. And every one of her novels is set in a totally different part of the world with a totally different adventure each time. You always get the well earned happy ending even though this particular book gives you a bit of a bittersweet one compared to her others I read.

Strong Plot with many Twists Keeps You Wanting More

This was a gripping novel. The plot took many unexpected turns making it difficult to put the book down. Madeline Brent writes intrigueing fiction with out the "trash". I just wish her books were easier to find!

A girl who escapes from Afganistan and returns to England.

This is another well written, intelligent novel about a young woman's adventures. For anyone who enjoys Madeline Brent's novels, you might be interested to know that this is the pseudonym of Peter O'Donnell, who wrote the "Modesty Blaise" novels and, as far as I know, still creates the comic strip of the same name, published in England. Although the subject material is very different - spy adventure rather than romance, the writing style has the same high quality, intricate plotting, and unexpected turns of events.

I have been reading MB's novels over and over for 20 years.

Madeline Brent wrote too few books for her avid readers. I've managed to get my hands on a copy of each of her novels, and I read them over and over. I re-read her novels when I want to be sure I will enjoy myself thoroughly and become totally wrapped up in good writing. I have always enjoyed the plots which move from foreign worlds such as Tibet and China to England, and then back to the foreign country to fulfill the destiny of the heroine. I first read Merlin's Keep when I was twelve and have been hooked ever since. I just wish there were more great Madeline Brent books out there.

Riveting and imaginative

I never felt drawn to the romance/gothic romance genre until I encountered this gem (I like popular fiction primarily). Late 19th British middle-East dwelling heroine gets abducted to Afghanistan to be the bride of an infertile and brutal ruler. The gets-real-spunky-real-fast heroine's rescue/counter-rescue, escape and subsequent life under the shadow of a love-to-hate-her anti-heroine kept me on the edge of my seat. (If you can't buy it, look for it in the library--it's worth it even if you have abandoned the library habit.)