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| Author | K. M. Peyton |
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| Cover artist | Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) & World Publishing Co. (USA) |
| Publication date | September 1967 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 193 pp (UK hardback first edition) & 206 pp (US hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-19-271278-0 (UK hardback first edition) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Followed by | The Edge of the Cloud |
Flambards is a novel by K. M. Peyton. The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I. The first book, originally published in 1967, tells how the teenaged heroine, orphaned heiress Christina Parsons, comes to live at Flambards (an impoverished Essex estate) with her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell, and his two sons, Mark and Will. She falls in love with one of her cousins and, later, with the family's former stablelad. Its original sequels were The Edge of the Cloud and Flambards in Summer (both 1969); Flambards Divided (1981) controversially reversed the ending of the original trilogy.
TV adaptation
A popular British television series (made in 1978 but not shown until 1979) was based on the first three novels in the series - "Flambards Divided" had not been written at this stage. Called simply Flambards, the programme starred Christine McKenna and Alan Parnaby. 13 50-minute episodes, were made by Yorkshire Television for ITV, adapted by Alan Plater, Alex Glasgow and William Humble. The music soundtrack was written by David Fanshawe; the "Song of Christina", for which many best remember the series, was sung by Nick Curtis.
Video and DVD releases
The series initially appeared on PAL VHS in 1994, released by the now defunct Video Gems label, and then received a further video release in 1999 by Granada Television, which had taken over YTV in 1997. This was superseded by a region 2 DVD released by Granada subsidiary VCI in January 2004. However, this DVD was deleted in 2005. It was released on DVD by Network on July 31, 2006.
In the United States, where the series has been consistently popular since its first transmission on PBS around 1980, it was released on region 1 DVD in June 2001.
Episodes of Flambards were among those used to make the Rob Brydon comedy series Directors Commentary in 2004.
Reruns
The series has also been repeated in the UK on archive channels such as Hallmark and UKTV Drama (then known as UK Drama). It appeared on PBS stations in the US in 1979, and on the US channel A&E in the early 1990s.
External links
- Flambards at IMDb
- - a Flambards forum
- Flying Dreams - a Flambards fan page
- - a Flambards fan page