Jane Davis
asked:
In your recent blog you spoke about how you move between contemporary and historical fiction in your writing. Which came first for you and which do you prefer writing?
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Jane Davis
The truthful answer is that I don’t consciously differentiate between historical and contemporary fiction. I go with the subject and see where it leads me. My first, second and third novels all had contemporary, although not bang up-to-date, settings. (I’m not a techy person, and wouldn’t want to write a novel which has characters texting each other.) Then came I Stopped Time, an homage to both my grandmother who lived to the age of 100 and the pioneers of photography. It spans the Victorian era to the present day. I also incorporated a dual timeline, using my Victorian character Lottie Pye and her estranged son, Sir James Hastings in the present day. I played with the juxtaposition of my Victorian character being very modern for her time, and her son being quite old-fashioned. As a writer, I enjoy exploring cause and effect, and in some cases the cause is discovered in the past.
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