Ms L.O.S.T
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Outside of the era you have based Maisie in, is there another period in British history that interests you? Or if you were to create an American protagonist ( female of course ) which era would you base her in? P.S: I really do hope they dramatize these one day.
Jacqueline Winspear
Good Question! I did so much deeper history at school (from the Middle Ages until the Regency period, that I never wanted to go back there again! However, I think the period from the start of the industrial revolution onwards is really interesting. It's those times when everything is changing, when people are being asked to move into another world with dizzying speed that fascinate me. And I can't really answer the second part of the question as I am doing the groundwork in creating another protagonist, and it's never a good idea to talk about ideas in the early stages - takes away the impetus to write about something if you talk about it!
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Linda
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Have you thought about writing a story about the altar frontal created by 133 WW1 soldiers while they were recovering from their battle wounds? It's going on display for the first time in 70 years on August 3rd at St. Paul's in London. It's an embroidered piece. Embroidery was chosen as therapy for the soldiers.
Patti
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Jacqueline Winspear:
One of the many take always for me from your intriguing Maize Dobbs is her intuitive sense of mimicking someone's gait in order for her to better empathize with the person. I think empathize is what I mean. It's brilliant! I wanted to thank you for that and ask how you came about developing that tidbit in her investigatory premise as well as other " very Maize" investigation techniques?
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