Sometimes It Was Harder To

Alternate History Fascinates Me, As It Fascinates All Novelists, Because 'what If?' Is The Big Thing.

Certainly I Had A Really Terrible Time With 'emotionally Weird.' When I Finished It, I Thought, 'i Can't Write Any More.

I Had A Novel In The Back Of My Mind When I Won An Ian St James Story Competition In 1993. At The Award Ceremony An Agent Asked Me If I Was Writing A Novel. I Showed Her Four Or Five Chapters Of What Would Become 'behind The Scenes At The Museum' And To My Surprise She Auctioned Them Off.

Ursula Craved Solitude But She Hated Loneliness, A Conundrum That She Couldn’t Even Begin To Solve.

I Did Feel When My Mother Died If Anyone Was Going To Haunt Me It Would Be Her. And She Hasn't, So I Think It Is Possibly The End.