![]() ![]() ![]() It is no surprise, therefore, that she comes to our interview from the set of a BBC documentary about a little-known writer named Helen Waddell: a literary superstar of her day, in 1930s Belfast, whose star has since dipped under the radar. In addition to her responsibilities as a carer for her father these past eight years, her time has been occupied as a tireless champion of other women writers, not least through the Women’s Prize for Fiction which she co-founded. ![]() She is excited for good reason: The Burning Chambers is her first outing as an author of pure historical fiction and marks her return to full-time writing after a decade-long hiatus. "I haven’t felt about a book the way I felt about Labyrinth-until now,” says Kate Mosse, brimming with anticipation ahead of her new historical saga coming from Mantle in May. ![]()
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