Oddly meandering and inconsquential column, but the last paragraphs include the result of a quick interview with Sarah Waters, who wrote The Night Watch, a book that is on my to-buy-and-read list. The following small bit hits some of the stuff I'm struggling with myself:
Taking her cue from novelist Mary Renault, who said that "the past isn't justThat's it for now.
full of us in fancy dress", she believes that good historical fiction should
take you back into a different mentality.
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