![]() When I first started to write historical fiction, very few historians seemed interested in women's lives they were peripheral to the main action.When I started to write about Nazi Germany, I did begin to get access to these, through diaries and journals and also covert reports from Social Democrats on life inside the Third Reich. ![]() Above all, I was interested in the lives of women. I always wanted to get an idea of what life was like for ordinary people, not just for the generals, the nobles, or the King. ![]() ![]() In my childhood, I went to historical novels if I wanted to find out about the lives of ordinary people: even Trevelyan's 'Social History of England,' which my father gave me when I was a young teenager, was rather too general in its narrative. ![]()
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