Charlotte Betts

Researching your historical novel is fascinating but it’s all too easy to get lost in your chosen historical period so that you never actually begin to write the story. This doesn’t matter if your hobby is finding out about history but, if you’re working to a publisher’s deadline, you will have to discipline yourself to know when to stop.

I’m thrilled to reveal that I’ve signed a contract for three new books set in Italy with Little Brown Book Group for their Piatkus imprint.   

Welcome to my guest author, Michelle Rosenberg, who is writing here about Amelia Earhart: the famous American aviator whose story and disappearance has captured the imagination of the world.

    Here are some ideas to open your Book Club discussion on The Fading of the Light but do make up your own questions, too. Find out how to set up your own book club here   Were you surprised to find how constrained women’s lives were in the 1900s? What are the advantages and disadvantages…

The end of the 19th century was a time of change. Science, art, politics and society were reshaped by emerging new theories and challenges to tradition. One of the more dramatic changes was to the increasing opportunities becoming available to women in a world dominated by men.