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- Paperback 592 pages (July 21, 2003)
- Publisher: Flame
- ISBN: 0340767588
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The
Dreaming Stones
It’s often said that a writer’s themes ‘emerge’ – that
is, you don’t write a novel in order to explore a theme,
but having completed it you may well find that you’ve done
so. This book, set in Roman Britain and the present
day, looks at what ‘home’ means to different people.
Claudia, the young army wife leaves Rome for the first time to
be with her husband in his cold northern garrison; Miranda – the
iconic 60s model ‘Rags’ – has married her great
love, Lord Frederick Stratton, and everything that goes with the
title including the family seat, Ladycross, close to Hadrian’s
Wall; Bobby, long divorced, has moved north to start a new life. ‘The
Dreaming Stones’ chronicles the huge changes in the three
women’s lives, how they deal with them, and the decisions
they reach. I like to look at the similarities, not the differences,
between the distant past and now, and to help me in that there
is an element of magic realism in the story, in the form of a wonderful
dog… No, you’ll have to read it.
I’ve often thought that buildings –especially old
ones – seem to hold the memories of past events in their
fabric. That notion is what gave me the title.
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