Hanna Hamre asked Katherine Webb:

Hey i wonder why you were so intresting in focusing on how woman were treated in 1900- century and before offocurse i have an assigment about the books "The Unseen" and " A Half Forgotten Song "? What message is it in this book ? what do you want to people to understand in this book by reading it ? From Hanna

Katherine Webb Hi Hanna,

Thanks for getting touch, and apologies for taking so long to get back to you - for some reason I don't always get notifications from Goodreads when I have a new question. Anyway, if your assignment has been and gone, I hope it went well.

You're asking some pretty big questions here, and I'm afraid I simply haven't time to answer them in depth. I'm currently writing my new novel and doing a lot of promotional work for the release of my newest book here in the UK.

So I'll focus on your first question - why I like to write about the role of women in society in the 1900s. I think the answer to this is that to me, an independent woman with all the rights I enjoy today, in 2016, the restrictions placed upon women in the past seem particularly onerous. The difference in the rules between how we live now and how we lived then is one of the things that makes history so interesting to me, since, of course, people themselves - their wants and needs and flaws - haven't changed one bit between then and now. I can't help but react to the injustices that various group of people, including women, were subjected to in the past, and when writing about female characters in a historical setting, I find it impossible to ignore that injustice.

I hope that answers that particular question! And I wish you luck with your assignment. All best wishes,
Katherine

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