Prue Batten on Dorothy Dunnett
Prue Batten, author of the Gisborn Series
I discovered histfict long before I discovered Dorothy Dunnett but when I eventually unshelved her in a little seaside library many years ago, I felt as if I had come home. I devoured her books then, one after another, and my life changed. As a histfict writer, she is my one and only inspiration. Others will talk of her depthless research, her undeniable intellect and creative wit, but for me it is always about character and colour. The colour comes from enviable threads in the narrative that twist and turn, leaving the reader breathlessly knotted. She dared to take history and strip the threads to suit her purpose and then reweave it into an overpowering masterpiece of warp and weft. She deservedly earned her mantle. None other can ever equal her in my opinion. There are one or two who come so close as to tread on the velvet hems of that cloak, but for me, she is and will always remain, the doyen of historical fiction.
Prue Batten’s blog has an article on Dorothy Dunnett which you can find here.
Her website and more about her writing is here.
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