In many ways, it is more than a little bit cheeky to call this a Christmas story, when what I am really doing is extracting out two chapters of my unpublished novel, both of which happen to be set during Christmas. What is interesting for me as a writer, is that both of these chaptersContinue reading “A Christmas Story – Part 2”
Tag Archives: Historical Fiction
A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh: Thoughts
I received this book as part of a launch party with New Writing North, where the author, Sarah Marsh, treated us to a reading of the beginning of the novel. I thought I was going to love the novel, especially as the reading initially put me in mind of Hetty Sorrel from George Eliot’s AdamContinue reading “A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh: Thoughts”
Catherine Cookson’s The Cinder Path
This was a rather fitting read for this time of year, with part of the book set during World War I. I was rather pleased to find a Dickensian reference in The Cinder Path, and I have blogged about this already at https://deborahsiddoway.com/2020/11/0… As this is the fourth Cookson novel that I have read, I amContinue reading “Catherine Cookson’s The Cinder Path”
Chatterbox – A Victorian Journal
I started reading The Cinder Path by Catherine Cookson, the fourth novel of hers I have turned to as I embrace my Northern heritage after moving back up here. I will come back to that book when I have finished reading it. But one of the things I want to explore is the historical settingContinue reading “Chatterbox – A Victorian Journal”
Catherine Cookson’s The Girl
The Girl by Catherine Cookson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a difficult book for me to read, given the central character is presented as the illegitimate offspring of a middle class, relatively well-off family man. This is my second foray into Catherine Cookson as I read my way through a compendium ofContinue reading “Catherine Cookson’s The Girl”
Deborah Siddoway 