I may be getting the boat/character mixed up with another author, but any dolphin references I automatically consider a Rosemary Sutcliffe salute, and I just have a vague memory that there was one of the stories where a character hires a boat or buys a boat from a fisherman or something to get from Point A to Point B and the owner is quite a character, but that's all I can remember, and I know this has happened in multiple books I've read, so I may be totally wrong. A reread is definitely in order.
I also know there is a direct Rosemary Sutcliffe quote from the Roman Britain trilogy in The Queen's Thief series, but I can't remember what it is right now.
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Date: 6/16/17 04:51 am (UTC)I also know there is a direct Rosemary Sutcliffe quote from the Roman Britain trilogy in The Queen's Thief series, but I can't remember what it is right now.