The Poison Keeper by Deborah Swift – review
I was completely swept away into the shadowy and dangerous world of Giulia Tofano in Renaissance Italy.
I was completely swept away into the shadowy and dangerous world of Giulia Tofano in Renaissance Italy.
My mother taught me to use a sewing machine when I was eight years old and I began to make my own clothes straight away. At first I used my grandmother’s treadle Singer and when I was ten my mother gave me her ornate but ancient hand-cranked Singer.
Carol McGrath is my guest author today, writing here about medieval gardens.
I’m writing this post on the 23rdMarch 2021, the anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown in the UK, and reflecting on the changes it made to my writing life.
The term Edwardian era or the ‘Gilded Age’ is often extended to 1914 when that time of peace and prosperity, for the few at least, was shattered by the cataclysm of WWI.