My next book will be another historical fiction novel, this time set in the village of Long Lawford in Warwickshire. Mentioned in the Doomsday Book, the village has a rich history spanning the centuries and offers the perfect setting for a new historical fiction novel. This will be a tale of love, loss, land and loyalty spread over several time periods. At the moment though, I am struggling with Long Covid, so my research is currently paused while I focus on resting, planning and pacing.
I did recently visit Tamworth Castle and was pleased to see the ‘witch marks’ in the Elizabethan porch. I think witchcraft will almost certainly feature in the next novel…
Those of you who have been asking about my next book might find the FB video above offering a sneaky look in my research journal interesting!
You can’t just sit down and write a historical fiction novel without research and my next book has five time periods spanning a thousand years, so there is quite a lot of reading for me to do! These are some of the books I am working my way through. They might give you a clue about the kind of characters and plot you will encounter in The Web…
Three: The Tale of Brave Women and the Eyam Plague by Jennifer Jenkins 