Patricia Stoltey recently discussed various points-of-view (you can read the post by clicking here ), and today we welcome Susan Wittig Albert to discuss an unusual and little-used narrative POV she employs in her Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series. Welcome, Susan, on this tour stop for the seventh book in the series, The Tale of Oat Cake Crag , and thank you for sharing your insights with us. ~~~~~~ The Narrator and the Reviewer In Mystery News a couple of years ago, Diana Vickery wrote a review of The Tale of Hawthorn House that made me smile. “Much of the book’s appeal,” she wrote, “was its twinkly third-person narrator. I could imagine her speaking voice—sweet, breathy but firm—and her personality traits: finely honed sense of both propriety and humor. And when she speaks directly to readers, they sit up and take notice.” Hey, I thought. This reviewer really got it. Because this is very close to the image I have in my own mind of the narrator of these family-f...