I’ve recently returned from a holiday/research trip to the Highlands of Scotland where I fell in love with the glorious scenery. The Scottish weather is notoriously unpredictable and, true to form, the first day was so cold my fingers felt frostbitten, the second so wet I nearly drowned but after that it was so hot I narrowly avoided sunstroke!
The world is at war, the cruise liner docks, and a beautiful young woman is escorted onto dry land in handcuffs. What has she done?
As a student of Fashion Design back in the late sixties, my fellow students and I regularly haunted the halls of the V & A Museum for inspiration. Many years have passed since then and life has taken a different direction but I still find the V & A a wonderful place to research for my writing.
The decaying grandeur of the abandoned Indian palaces and forts is impossibly romantic. When I walked through the echoing rooms I imagined I could hear the whispers of times long ago. It was this that inspired me to write The Palace of lost Dreams.
Historical novelist, John Jackson, talking about ‘Writing in the Past’.