The Trial of Lotta Rae is the tale of a woman who believes in justice. Who becomes notorious as she seeks that justice at an Old Bailey trial. It is set against the tumultuous Suffragette movement and the impending world war. I have always found that time – that precipice – before the first world war and what would come from that horror, so poignant. The era preceding the war was marked by such great optimism. The Liberal British Government, then governing Ireland too, …
Category: Character
In my debut novel, 28 Questions, the narrator is a wannabe opera singer who tells a stranger on the tube, “I need to marry a writer”. I can attest to …
Unlike naming a baby, characters in fiction can be given names that might prompt school yard bullying or put them at a disadvantage professionally. Writers can name a character Sylvester …
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