Jane Davis
I'm actually writing that book! For the last 20 years I have lived in a house that used to be a ticket office for a pleasure garden. We know that the man who built the property was called R E Cooke. Ordnance survey maps show that the pleasure garden didn't fail in one fell swoop but was sold off plot be plot. The question of what led a man to open a pleasure garden at a point when most of the great gardens had failed, and what made him fight so hard to try and save it, has intrigued me for the past two decades. Now I'm writing it.
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Jane Davis:
I discovered your books in a very roundabout way and really loved "I Stopped Time." Indie authors and literary fiction seem to be something of an oxymoron in the U.S., and I would really love to discover more authors, especially those who work with historical fiction and more unusual forms, such as novellas. Any suggestions? Many thanks for any help you can give!
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