When I was writing my new novel, Yours Cheerfully, because it is a sequel (to my debut Dear Mrs Bird) and I know my characters and where they are in their lives, I assumed that they would fit into whatever I wanted to write about. I had created them, I knew them inside out. Naturally, I’d know exactly what they would do next. However, as I began researching and planning the story which would meet them again in late 1941, …
Category: Historical Fiction
Books are living things. They are primarily vehicles for human stories. They carry our memory in print. At one point, in my new novel – The Pages – a library …
I began writing The Seven Sisters series in 2013, and 1.2 million words later, I suddenly found myself about to write Book 7. The characters have been with me for …
I have always been interested in forgotten pieces of history, particularly where lives have been barely recorded, distorted by mis-telling, or eroded over time. It is the fragment that excites …
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