One of the main reasons I write novels set in the 1920s is because of the influence the Great War had on people and society. I research a lot by reading oral histories, diaries, and contemporary literature and reportage because it is only when I have a thorough sense of time and place that I can begin to stretch my imagination to recreate what it might have been like to have had to lived through it.

I have recently finished a short story, Faith's Reward, as a prequel to my novel Foul Trade. It covers one of the harrowing days in the life of May Keaps when she was an ambulance driver in Northern France. And I dedicate it to every woman who endured such experiences for real. Mine is a work of fiction, but their losses and deprivations weren't brought to a conclusion with the closing of a book. Some things live on in the memory forever.

If you'd like to find out more about my research sources then please visit my website: http://www.bkduncan.com