Cheryl Flores
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Francesca Haig:
The fire sermon is the best book I have read in a long time. Great job can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy. Do the alphas and the omegas represent any group of modern day or biblical groups?
Francesca Haig
Thanks Cheryl - lovely to hear that you enjoyed The Fire Sermon so much!
I definitely think there are parallels to be drawn between the injustice and oppression in the novel and the many examples of these things in our contemporary world - but when I wrote the novel, I wasn't thinking about any particular group. I'd be reluctant to impose a specific allegorical interpretation onto the novel, because I find that this can end up limiting the possibilities that people might otherwise discover within the book. I'd prefer to leave it open - but if my novel is prompting people to think about real-world injustices then I'm delighted.
I definitely think there are parallels to be drawn between the injustice and oppression in the novel and the many examples of these things in our contemporary world - but when I wrote the novel, I wasn't thinking about any particular group. I'd be reluctant to impose a specific allegorical interpretation onto the novel, because I find that this can end up limiting the possibilities that people might otherwise discover within the book. I'd prefer to leave it open - but if my novel is prompting people to think about real-world injustices then I'm delighted.
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Fiona Stone
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Francesca Haig:
I am reading the cookbook of common prayer and am puzzled and intrigued by the place of death. Why Buckinghamshire? there are plenty of caves and underground rivers that flash flood, but not in Buckinghamshire. The only ‘caves’ are the man made “Hellfire” caves, spectacular in their construction and use but hard to drown in and no good for caving/ potholing or spelunking.
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