Last August, we were staying at a hotel in Devon when a fellow guest mentioned that Cotehele was just over the border in Cornwall. Had we seen it? To my shame, I had never heard […]
Today, pleasure boats line the King’s Staith in summer time, but in the 16th this was the main landing place for cargo vessels. The keelboats that plied up and down the Ouse to Hull tied […]
Although Jane is plain, her father is rich enough to buy her a fine husband, and she is married to Robert Holmwood. Robert is young and handsome and wealthy; Jane can hardly believe her luck. […]
When we first meet Jane, she is just twelve and living in her father’s house in St Andrewgate. Her mother is dead, and although Jane is nominally in charge of the household, she relies on […]
Today, St Andrewgate bears little resemblance to the 16th-century street, although the church of St Andrew still stands. Apart from a row of lovely 18th-century houses, most of the homes are now blocks of flats […]
The Edge of Dark is the story of Jane, whose deathbed vow in 1569 sets her on twisting path of joy and deceit that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to […]
The Memory of Midnight is out now and available at Amazon, Tesco and all good bookshops. Read an excerpt from the first chapter here: York, August 1561 She had to hide. ‘One … two […]
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