William Makepeace Thackeray’s troubled Irish wife and his travels in Ireland had a major influence on the author's new novel
The most beautiful book I own is a leather-bound sketchbook that belonged to my artist grandfather – the model for Teddy Lloyd in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – and it is a key narrative device in my latest novel, Liberty Silk'
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