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Oxford Mourning
This is the third in the Kate Ivory series.
This book finds Kate in a relationship with
an Oxford academic who is, unfortunately, rather less than
he appears. It tells, too, of a group of squatters, organised
by a young man called Ant, whose lives cross that of Kate.
I was very interested at the time in the life
and works of Charles Dickens, and in particular with his friendship
with the young actress, Ellen Ternan. To my surprise, I found
that Ellen’s sister, Maria, had married an Oxford brewer
and lived in a house in north Oxford. In the Bodleian I found
letters written by her contemporaries, which gave an intimate
view of the times, and also nineteenth-century photographs
of the interior of the house where she had lived. Surely
the sisters had written to one another! Dickens burned his
diaries and papers, but what happened to the letters exchanged
by the sisters?
Alex Gordon in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph
wrote: ‘Veronica Stallwood has produced her most intriguing
case yet for novelist Kate Ivory in Oxford Mourning.’
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