Emma of Normandy – England’s Twice-Crowned Queen
Historical novelists are story tellers, not historians; nevertheless, they can often pluck a figure from the past – someone who has been ignored or cast into shadow by some larger event or the mere passing of centuries – and by imagining their lives can resurrect them from history’s footnotes. Case in point: Emma of Normandy, the heroine of my novels Shadow on the Crown and The Price of Blood.