Most excited! My new novel now has a definite title, The Shogun’s Queen, and a publication date - November 3rd 2016 - and a beautiful cover. I’ve loved researching and re-imagining this true story- the heart-rending story of Atsu. My research has taken me down to the south of Japan, to the black sands of Ibusuki and the smoking volcano of Sakurajima, and up to Tokyo, which in Atsu’s day was called Edo. There in the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace I paced out the dimensions of the Women’s Place, where she spent much of her life. But mostly I’ve done the best sort of travel, through time, not place, back to nineteenth century Japan ...