How I approached one of the flagship scenes of my new novel Road to Rebellion:

Road to Rebellion is a historical novel that had been living in my head for many years, more than fifteen at least. I was due to start writing it in September 2013, but became distracted by another story which I wrote but have not yet published.

Road to Rebellion is the story of a slave and her mistress who each raise a son for the master of a Jamaican plantation and struggle for supremacy on the Morley Estate. This brings them, and eventually their sons, to a confrontation as destructive as t...