In: Catholocism| Cultural History| Historical Fiction| Sacred Hearts| Sarah Dunant
9 Jul 2009Hi 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 [...]
In: Cultural History| Historical Fiction| Sacred Hearts| Saints| Sarah Dunant| Women's Studies
4 Jul 2009Saturday 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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