
If you haven’t read Nine Coaches Waiting , I would suggest you read the plot summary but not this blog post – you might get horribly confused between versions if you go on to read the novel and, at least indirectly, this post contains spoilers.įirst of all, this is the first of her novels where I’ve seen no suggestion that Mary Stewart wanted to write under any other name there is no Mary Rainbow or Elizabeth Hayward here.


Some of this dates back to July 1955 – the novel was published in 1958. To accompany the page I’ve written today, which is a plot summary of Nine Coaches Waiting, I thought I’d note down in this blog post some information on early versions of the novel.
