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An Evening of Yorkshire-based Historical Fiction with Liz Flanagan
Join us in the bookshop as we chat to award-winning author Liz Flanagan as she releases her brand-new debut, historical fiction When we were Divided.
Taking a new direction writing historical fiction for adults, multi-award-winning children’s author Liz Flanagan presents a searing debut. Expertly crafted and beautifully sensitive, this book with its themes of family and political conflict, and pure but forbidden love, will stay with readers long after they’ve turned the last page.
About the Book
Divided by plague, divided by war, divided by love – what will reunite two sisters? Yorkshire, 1643. Civil war divides the country. Jane mourns the departure of her last boy who goes off to fight for the king. She must find a new way to endure, facing family secrets and her own buried grief. Isabel is spurred into action, finding herself drawn into the rebel resistance – with unexpected consequences that might mean disaster for her sister Jane.
Kit is left desperate and starving, taking on the identity of a murdered brother. Life in the king’s army brings friendship, new hope and even love at the most perilous moment of all. As these three lives intertwine, each of them will be altered forever..
About the Author
Liz Flanagan is an award-winning author whose previous books were for children and young adults. When We Were Divided is her first novel for adults. She teaches Creative Writing in many different settings and previously worked as a book editor and as Centre Director for Arvon at Ted Hughes’s former home, Lumb Bank. She lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, with her family and pets and loves to walk in the beautiful landscape of her hometown.
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