Many people ask me why did I write my book? Why is it different? Why should a reader buy it? So I thought I would answer your questions:

“I lived in an interesting old house for a number of years and was intrigued by the cellars which had been closed up a long while before. My book, Voices Past, was inspired by the opening up of the cellars and then my imagination took me to places I couldn’t have expected. Quite early on the book began to write itself.

I believe it is different because it was inspired by a place in which I have lived together with my fictional account of a village which is woven together and blends real historical events such as the Dissolution of the Monasteries and events in the 1940s with rural life in contemporary England.

As I wrote Voices Past, I became increasingly aware of the way in which the past is always with us and the enormous influence of it on our everyday lives. I think this is something that will appeal to readers.”