Author Talk – Writing Historical Fiction with Maureen Armstrong

One evening in 1947, Margaret Smith put her two daughters to bed and sat down at her typewriter. The war was over. Her husband, recently “demobbed” from the RAF, was away at college. Now she had time to write.

Join Maureen as she describes publishing her mother’s “long lost novel”, Bombweed set on a Wiltshire farm during World War II and in war torn Portsmouth. Explore the contrast between the relative peace of the countryside with the nightly air raids in Portsmouth. And discover how history may be written as fiction and be encouraged to record your own life experiences.