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Novel came to author in her dreams.
(From Hull Daily Mail)
November. The dead month... the fields like vast lakes under a sullen sky." Cassandra Clark's novel begins amid the dripping gloom of medieval Holderness.
As it unfolds, this strange tale - set in 1382 against the turmoil of Richard II's reign - offers a compulsive glimpse of a violent, divisive time in our history.
And given its haunting imagery, including the "crow-stripped" corpses that swing from the gibbets, it comes as little surprise that inspiration arrived while its Cottingham-born writer was asleep.
"It came to me in a dream," said Cassandra, who describes herself as a Yorkshire "exile" living in London.
"I had been going through a bad time - my dad was ill, and I was coming up to Yorkshire to look after him.
"It had got to the point when I wondered whether I would ever get around to writing the book I wanted.
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