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    Time-travelling through stories

    Sep 02, 2021 4 minutes

    Ididn’t set out to be a time traveller but when I started writing for young people it just kind of happened. I’m now the proud author of two books for children, The Wild Way Home and The Way to Impossible Island, both published by Bloomsbury and both set partly in the Stone Age. So what drew me to telling stories of our ancient past? And what advice can I offer fellow middle-grade writers as they too journey back in time?

    Write what you know… sort of…

    Everyone always says ‘write what you know’ – clearly this is the first stumbling block with writing historically based fiction; I can’t for one moment pretend to have first-hand experience of Stone Age

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