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Although Mary Joyce was a key figure in the life of John Clare (1793-1864), said by many to be England's greatest nature poet, very little is known about her. This work of fiction uses details from John Clare's own writings to construct a picture, written from the perspective of Mary's life, of how things probably were.
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When I want to read a book, I write one. So wrote the 19th century politician and novelist Benjamin Disraeli - Washington Irving said something very similar - and its a maxim which Ive adopted as my own. Almost all of the writing Ive done over many years has been based on wanting to read a book on a particular subject - a book which research told me didnt currently seem to exist. Carrying the Torch, like all my other books to date, was born out of the desire to read a good book on an interesting subject: finding nothing available that quite matched up to my expectations, I decided to write it myself. I wanted a good, general book about the phenomenon of unrequited love in the worlds art, how...