The Silver Season

A few blank days due to a cataract removal on Friday 26th June

Almost back to normal now, and during the days when I didn't want to use the computer because of the brightness of the screen (even at its lowest level!) I have now worked out on paper what will happen to my characters in Silver Season. My progress had slowed somewhat because I really didn't know where I was going with it, but now I do, so it will be full steam ahead  and on to publication later in the year.

The Silver Season is set in the year 1911, which marked the end of the Edwardian era. Think of the opening episode of Downton Abbey, and you have the clothes and fashions of the time. It was a year of a heat wave in the UK, when  temperatures hit the nineties with appalling regularity and drought was widespread by August. Edward died and the new king George was crowned. Seventeen-year-old Prince Edward, he of abdication fame 25 years on, was crowned Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle

The Duchess of Devonshire thought the prince still rather young for his years, and his mother thought
him a contented person who never rushed about after amusement. Still, the ceremony went off well and everyone was pleased.