Changes

Will I continue to write historical fiction? Well, my next novel 'Song of the Sea Maid', due out next year, is set in the eighteenth century, whilst my present project will probably revolve around the first couple of decades of the twentieth century (though this may all change, as novelists can be rather flighty, you know). And I'd quite like to have a go at that WWII novel again and improve it, and there might even be a sequel to 'The Visitors' one day. So, for the time being, I will carry on out of my own time and buried in the past. I love the quaint language of the past and feel its loss when I hear modern-day slang that makes me cringe, yet whilst I love the idea of big frocks, I wouldn't like to wear the blasted things day in, day out. And I'm also extremely glad we have such diverse modern inventions as Twitter and caramel lattés. But, and this is my own very particular preference, I certainly don't want to write about them. Give me instead flat irons and cartwheels and scuppets and cooling lofts any day of the week…

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