The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.