Bricks and Morton

The Distant Hours

It started well. She’d transported her family to England; had lived there, researching, for three months; and, back in Australia, had completed 60,000 words.

“I loved my characters,” says Kate, “but this other family crept up on me. The Blythes, who lived in an English castle, invaded my mind. There were three sisters and the youngest wanted to marry, and didn’t.