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When I wrote In Falling Snow, my first historical novel based on real events, I was quite exercised by my duty of care to history, as I saw it.

I felt it was only right that if I were going to include real people from history as characters, I should reflect who they really were.

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Grace Paley (I think) said that any story told twice is fiction, and Margaret Atwood tells us that we novelists have no duty of care to history. We make up plausible whoppers and our only job is that they are plausible. Atwood developed her own ethics around historical fact to write Alias Grace, and I did the same for In Falling Snow.

In writing about real people from history, I try to find the sense of them, either from their own words, or their actions, what’s been written about them, and I work from there to build a character. This was the principle I continued for The True Story of Maddie Bright/ Lost Autumn.

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