Where can I find out more about your art?
Visit clangleyhawthorneart.com.
What are you working on now?
Since moving to Florida, I’ve been volunteering at historic palm cottage in Naples and sitting on the porch my first summer in Florida inspired me to write a novel about the early period of Naples development (described in the early 20th Century as “Summerland in Wintertime”). I’m currently working on a historical mystery set in […]
What are your favorite books?
My two favorite novels are Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life.
Why were you drawn to the Edwardian period?
I’ve always been intrigued by the Edwardian period, that “golden sunlit afternoon” before the devastation of the Great War, because in reality this was a period of tremendous upheaval and change. There are suffragettes on the streets demanding votes for women, Irish nationalists clamoring for Home Rule and trade unionists heralding the rise of socialism. […]
What inspired you to write your first book?
Inspiration for Consequences of Sin came mainly from two sources, my grandparents’ experiences living and working in Lancashire, England and a trip down the Orinoco River in Venezuela that my husband and I took in 2000. My mother’s parents were poor, working-class Catholics from Rishton, a small industrial town in the North of England, while […]