![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope this helps, and it's lovely to 'talk' to you. If you look on my Goodreads book list, you'll see some of my recent reads, many of them really good and often a bit spooky or disturbing. I still love Moominland Midwinter - a deceptively simple little book but with so many layers and depths of meaning - magical. I read the Moomintroll books years ago and they really had a deep effect on me. As for books that I love - where to start! There are so many! I tend to read things with a fantasy/supernatural or otherwise just 'odd' flavour. I've always loved ghost stories, mythology, legends, and using these to add details to historical fiction really appealed to me. It wouldn't have been pleasant - cold, not enough food, hard work, and a lonely life for a young servant boy. When Brother Walter the hob returns to the abbey, he finds. Crowfield Abbey lies in ruins and a ghostly crawling man haunts the long abandoned rooms and cloisters. As an archaeologist,I worked on several abbeys and priories over the years and often thought about what life must have been like in one of the smaller, poorer religious houses. In a place where the everyday world and the Otherworld meet, anything can happen. Archaeology can only tell you so much, so writing was a way of putting the flesh on the bones, so to speak. I've always wondered what the lives of the people we dig up were like. As for what inspired me to write the series, it wasn't so much any fiction I read, but just a deep interest in archaeology. Hello Ankur, thank you so much for the lovely things you say about Crowfield! Very kind of you. ![]()
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