On to a new subject…

Finally, the subject(s) of my new book is/are gaining ground, and becoming an influence. Questions are forming about him (or rather, ‘them’).

I am looking forward, this summer, to travelling where one of them stood, in an ancient building, in an ancient landscape, and trying to capture some of the sights and smells that influenced his experiences in the 19th century. After all, it was an important period in his life, and one that ultimately would inform both his life and – had he but known it at the time – his death. An inconsequential day, a peaceful day, by all appearances, but by the vagaries of the cosmos, a defining moment.

It will be interesting to experience that place, and that time, and to absorb some feeling of the place, to transfer it onto paper to set the scene, and start the story…