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Vancouver with half a voice

In: Art History| Catholocism| Cultural History| Ferrara| Historical Fiction| Music| Sacred Hearts| Saints| Sarah Dunant| Uncategorized

15 Jul 2009

I love this city so much.  There is such a deep sense of relaxation to it. Any place where you can see mountains and water at the same timne is good for the soul.   Not that I am seeing much of it.  Tv am studios, books shops and the odd glimpse of a view out [...]

On the road but with no rock star entourage

In: Catholocism| Cultural History| Historical Fiction| Sacred Hearts| Sarah Dunant

9 Jul 2009

Hi Margot. Thank you for that.  Sacred Hearts will be in your hands soon enough. Please let me know what you think.
Meanwhile I have been hurtling around Dublin on the opening of this mad international tour.  Such a friendly city, coping well with a recession which is as low as the boom was high.  Also [...]

Saint and sinner – new article in The Guardian

In: Cultural History| Historical Fiction| Sacred Hearts| Saints| Sarah Dunant| Women's Studies

4 Jul 2009

Saturday morning , written after a rather wonderful publication party for Sacred Hearts which went went on way into the night. Woke up this morning to find an article I had written in today’s Guardian newspaper: about a fabulous novel  I read by Julia O’Faolain while researching SH built around a 6th century saint, whom [...]


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