Amazing! This is my favourite film/book of all time and I would have been majorly annoyed if you hadn't done this justice but you have! I would read this again and again and again! You captured the moment perfectly it's just how I remembered it! Lots of love Hari's girlfriend xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Great job. Catch ya on the flip side.

I read A Little Princess once when I was ten, one of the few books that I couldn't put down when I was a child-until Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest series turned me a fanatic of fantasy books-and that's saying something since I had suffered a bad case of ADHD before hitting teen years. I remember looking longingly at the back cover while caressing it after being finished.

So in spite not remembering much of the story itself I remember that afterglow and so had to read what you wrote.

I love all your work. I don't review them that often because frankly I'm daunted by you. I feel Like Taran before Annlaw, and I'm afraid anything I say about your stories would be insignificant, lol.

But I'll try my best-and quick, my little niece keeps coming in my room nagging to take her bike riding. Something I've always loved about your writing is how it forces me to read carefully and respond to every meaningful phrase and metaphor.

I love how you dig into the soldier's instincts here, as if you were one yourself. The beauty of fantasy, experiencing what you might never know in reality. I love all the metaphors you use to describe his emotions warring against his amnesia; the key without a lock, the child's wailing outside in the storm after being awoken from hearing childish laughter, feeling guilty of locking out the sound. Is that because his heart remembers his parental instincts?

Even having forgotten a lot of the story, and I probably haven't gotten the point of it having been ten and not very bright then, I can still say this is one of the loveliest and enjoyable fics I've read on this site.

OUTSTANDING!

This is one of my favorite movies. I used to watch it everyday when I was a kid. You did a beautiful job writing this. _

:) I love this movie alot and like you the reunion sceen is my fav...it always sends shivers up my spin or arms lol when she is begging him to remember and then he screams "SARAH!" ive seen this movie idk how many times i could prob quote it but i like how you wrote it :)

This was beautifully written. The scene is just as I remember it from the movie. Your word choices are perfect and the rhythm drives the story to the reunion. You can feel his frustration, confusion, and sudden realization. I particularly loved the description of Sara's thoughts in the attic. This was an excellent story and will come in very handy when I want to watch the movie but don't have time. :)

My favorite lines:

"She must, must, must make him see her, make him know her, because if Papa is not Papa then she is not Sara and there is no princess, no Sara, no nothing, anymore, forever."

"It is anger that compels her to beat uselessly against the door of the attic, anger that prods her to continually protest her innocence, anger that finally turns her, seething, from the unmoved finality of a locked door. It is her anger that keeps her strong, and her fear that wills her to escape."

oh, wow, that was..

stunning, simply stunning.

you truly did it justice! it was beautiful!

Very well done, loved the novelization of this scene from the movie!

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Your words simply flow like a river, and I was struck by how you so accurately verbalized the feelings and events during my favorite scene in this lovely film. This scene always succeeds in making me cry, and you did a gorgeous job with it. Thank you!

"An excuse to play with words" - well, you play with words very well! I loved this! It's also my favorite scene in the movie... I've seen it a million times and still cry each time... your words really captured it... love, love, love!

Very well done, I loved this movie, esp. the relationship between Sara and her father. Good novelization. thanks!

I loved this.

I think the chapters from the father's POV are the more interesting ones because he is much more of a mystery to us. You know, I've always wondered what could be going through his mind, how he could back away from Sara like that, and what finally moved him to remember. Now I know.

And this line breaks my heart:

"if Papa is not Papa then she is not Sara and there is no princess, no Sara, no nothing, anymore, forever."

Oh HOW this scene makes me cry. And by cry I mean sob. Usually there is also some whimpering and wailing involved. Curan's work is very special, and I think you've done it justice with your beautiful prose! I like the addition of the memory of Sara's mother. Nice touch :)

I love the language you used throughout this piece. it was very descriptive and you really allowed the reader to feel and see and even taste everything that was happening in the story. That's my favorite part about reading and writing, all of the opportunity for wonderful descriptions, and I thoroughly enjoyed the way you handled yours. I think the story format worked well, I agree that one page would have been too long. A Little Princess was one of my favorite movies as a little girl, but I must admit that i've never read the book. I just might have to now. Anyway, very, very nice work!