Historical fiction can informative, educational and often entertaining but although the core human characteristics have remained largely unchanged over the evolution of mankind and literature, the social context within which those characteristics are expressed has changed dramatically. Readers tell me they read historical fiction in order to be transported to another time and another place among other motivations such as wanting to escape their current time and place. The trick to a really successful historical novel is to create the past but to lace it with contemporary meaning. Murder has been with us from the beginning but the social reaction to murder has transformed from culture to culture, from generation to generation. To create a dialogue with the reader focussing on the varied reactions of individuals and cultures to murder in the 18th Century and by implication contrasting with murder in his or her current context, is not only challenging for the author but also rewarding when the alchemy is right and the trick succeeds.
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