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[[Category:Authors{{infobox1|title= Revenge|author= Mitchell & Mitchell]]|reviewer= Kate Jones|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= A well thought out, plot driven romp through 17th Century England, through the eyes of a strong-willed young woman.|rating= 4|buy= Maybe|borrow= Yes|pages=340|publisher=Independently Published|date=April 2017|isbn= 978-1520973173|website=|video=|cover=MandM_Revenge|aznuk=1520973179|aznus=1520973179}}

[[image:Mitchell_Mitchell''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II of England.jpg|left]] You can read more about AU|THOR [[:Category:AU|THOR|here]]. ==Elizabeth E Mitchell== There I was A young woman, 58 years oldRuth Courtney, having recently taken early retirement after 44 years of full-time office workis returning home to her family's farmhouse, bored – no matter how difficult excited at the knitting pattern it just didn't cut the mustard – I needed prospect of a challengenew King. My sister She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, Rossupporters of Cromwell, reminded me how much I had loved making up stories for my four younger siblings when we were kidsher family nowhere to be found. So true. I remember how upset I was when I found I was too late to save my composition book on Following an assault by the last day leader of term from being put in the bin. Mr Angelmen, and forced to attack him to protect herself, my English teachershe is later found unconscious and rescued, had been too quick off the mark and taken in clearing out each year's classroom cupboardby a kind local parson and his wife.The local authority came to my rescue Initially, God love themshe has no recollection of who she is, with its creative writing classes. I joined and I never looked back, nor was there a dull moment thereafteris so deep in shock she cannot speak. Thoroughly hooked Eventually, I wrote short storieshowever, novelsshe regains her strength and voice, poetry and plays, the soldiers responsible are hung for their crimes. All but one of which 'A Chance Meeting' was published, all under who returns later in the name Beth E Browningstory. Children As Ruth discovers she is pregnant to the soldier who violated her, she decides to assume her dead sister's stories were funname, murder/detective stories absorbingHope, as she was married and my three-part historical saga aimed at both children she and adults took me back her husband died in the raid. Receiving a marriage proposal from an elderly wealthy gentleman, she is advised to those long-ago times I found so fascinatingtake his offer, believing it will provide the best hope for herself and her unborn child. But Sir Neville is not all he seems, and Ruth/Hope soon ends up on the run and fighting for her life. The story has various twists and turns, and whilst Sir Neville's behaviour is initially a little suspect, I met Lindadidn't see the main turn of events coming. The book is certainly plot driven, my friend and now cothe cast of characters did seem at times slightly stereotypical and a little one-authordimensional, at but in general, they were believable. For anybody interested in historical detail, there isn't a great deal in the writing classbook, and joining forces though personally I don't like to be overloaded with details, so this wasn't a problem for me. The story does have a touch of the writing duo melodrama of a 19th Century Gothic style novel, which I'Mitchell & Mitchell' was bornm not sure if the authors intended or not. Linda They clearly wanted to stress the plight of women of the period, with her beautiful prose and character enhancing skillswho had very little agency over their own lives, and myself as the main plotterthis is a theme which is repeated throughout. All in all, work well togetheran enjoyable, researching as we gotense plot, trying to make our period stories as authentic as possiblewith a likeable central female character, and living our characters' exploring the issues faced by women in history who often had very little power over their lives as we put them on the page.  ==Linda Mitchell==If you liked this, you might like [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]].

Much though I would like to say that Elizabeth and I met tracking down big-game hunters in the Serengeti, it was actually happening to sit next to each other on the first day of a writing class. I had attended other classes over the years but this was by far the most inspirational and, incidentally, lead to many lasting friendships. I have been scribbling away in some note-book or other as long as I You can remember, writing everything from children's stories to mini-plays, and was fortunate enough to win a prize for a ghost story. The one uniting feature of all my work was its brevity; short pieces being my speciality it was with some trepidation that I started out on the adventure of joining Elizabeth in writing a novel, but I found I could hang my prose on her plot lines, and somehow, despite both of us pushing the plot a little this way and that over the many months of writing, with email attachments flying back and forth, we managed to progress without ever a cross word. read more about Mitchell & Mitchell [[:Category:Mitchell & Mitchell|here]]