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Video: How Local History and Folklore Inspires My Novels

Henry VIII's sacking of Buckfast Abbey and the slave trade on Lundy Island are two incidents from history that informed my fiction

Here’s me on Dartmoor again (this time near Cadover Bridge and Burrator Reservoir). I desperately need a haircut again, and lament the loss of my hair. I used to have lovely thick hair, so videos like these when light is unflattering are a torment to my vanity and an ongoing sore point generally.

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