What I like doing is having the historical, and the political in the personal. You've spoken about the issues facing the country, what about those facing your characters in the book? So the Restoration which is offered up as a sort of return to normality in a lot of conventional histories was for very many people who supported Cromwell Revolution, a mistake. At that time, England was famously, shockingly, amazingly, radical. England was the first country in the Western world to have a full rebellion and to kill a king, before the French Revolution, before the American Revolution. It is an interesting time in terms of our national history. This is a time of intense dramatic political change. Tidelands closes with the death of Charles I when it looks like England's going to be a republic, probably forever while Dark Tides opens with the restoration of Charles II. What's been happening in England since then?
Dark Tides is set 21 years after the events of Tidelands.
Sky HISTORY spoke to Philippa Gregory over the phone about her new novel and found out why she thinks the Restoration is such a fascinating period of English history. The novel is set 21-years after the events of Tidelands and in a very different England from the one riven by Civil War and gripped by fear of witches. Phillipa Gregory returns with a new book, Dark Tides, the second book in her Fairmile series. In a fascinating interview, the queen of historical fiction, Philippa Gregory, discusses her new Restoration era novel, Dark Tides.
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