(Amazon UK link) I decided it was time to re-read my books by Jane Aiken Hodge. I first read some of her historical novels as a teenager, and have gradually acquired others, over the decades. Sadly most of her books are now long out of print, but some of them are lurking in charity shops, and can sometimes be found second-hand online.
It’s over twenty years since I read ‘Maulever Hall’, and I had entirely forgotten everything about it. It’s set in the early 1830s; part of the focus of one of the c...