 |  | | | Jill Dawson | 30 Jan 2009 | | |
 "The Great Lover"
One of the most famous lines of English poetry is, “And is there honey still for tea?”, written of course by Rupert Brooke. It was inspired by the time he spent in Grantchester in the years before the First World War, and it was on a visit to Grantchester, to the Orchard House, that the author Jill Dawson picked up a postcard showing the maids who worked there in Rupert Brooke’s time, and began to imagine a name and a life for one of them – resulting in the fictional creation of Nell Golightly. Nell and Rupert between them are given voice in Jill’s new novel, “The Great Lover”, and Jill talks to Jenni about where reality meets fiction.
Publication of new novel “The Great Lover”, 22nd Jan, Sceptre £12.99, ISBN 978-0-340-93565-1 | |
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