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Research:
One of my prepublication readers really liked my novels that included boarding schools and school. I used them as settings for Essie: Enchantment and the Aos Si, and for Children of Light and Darkness an Ancient Light novel. What I devised was the idea of a girl who had snuck into a boarding school. I needed a means for her to stay hidden while in the school and a reason for it. The reason was simply because she wanted an education. The means was that she was the unfortunate result of the union of an Unseelie Faery and a mortal. She uses fae magic, if you like, to remain hidden. I also needed a foil, a girl who could see through her fae glamour and might possibly reveal her secrets. That was the beginning of inspiration for Deirdre. The research was a little more complex than some of my writing--I set the novel in the 1990s and Wycombe Abbey, an elite girl's boarding school. To make this historically correct took a large amount of research.
The major characters in
The Theme
The concept behind
Deirdre is to reveal friendship and trust bound by secrets and
learning between two opposing personalities.
The protagonist is a unique and unusual
person who hasn’t lived much of a real childhood.
She is paired with a girl who has lived
nothing but through hard knocks and suffering.
Teaser
Sorcha Weir’s secret is discovered by Deirdre
Calloway—Sorcha is clandestinely attending Wycombe Abbey boarding school.
When two problem
girls, both with supernatural abilities, come together at Wycombe Abbey
boarding school, the sparks are about to fly. |
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