Hi Freya! Firstly, thank you SO much for the whole Last Binding series, but especially for A Power Unbound--I absolutely adored it. I love Jack and Alan, and I love the way they play with class and danger. It's so rare to see that kind of thing handled in both a thoughtfully and WILDLY sexy way, and it melted my brain in a very very good way.
My question is about something else, though. I noticed this line when Alan steps into the kitchen in the Clerkenwell house:
"He reached up to absently touch the doorframe as he did so, an adopted habit of his mother's that travelled from house to house and created a shiny-smooth patch in any place that the Rossi family inhabited for long enough."
It immediately made me think of someone reaching to touch a mezuzah in a Jewish household. Is there some family history implied there, or is it just a coincidence? Either way, it's a lovely detail!
hello! thank you so much for reading and this message!
and that was an entirely coincidental echo; I wasn't implying anything about alan's family (catholics all the way down, I'm afraid!).
but I love the small gestures and small habits, physical and verbal, casual or superstitious, that develop within households.
and I have a memory from I think a tour of a historical house, somewhere and sometime, pointing out a worn-smooth patch in the upper frame of a door that they thought was due to generations of slowly-taller more modern people existing in a house where the ceilings and frames were of the height that matched the much shorter average population when it was built. and so they had to reach up and catch the frame as they ducked through it, so they didn't bump their heads. I can't remember any more than that. but it stuck!
