Synopsis: Windrose Hall

Windrose Hall is a young adult novel set in early seventeenth century England. Christopher (Kit) and Thomasine (Tom) are the children of a well-to-do but unconventional family living in Windrose Hall - a rambling Northamptonshire manor house. Cross-dressing, cross-tempered Tom longs to follow in her scientist uncle's footsteps; Kit is passionate about theatre and loves animals of all kinds... almost as much as he loves being the centre of attention.

Their comfortable lives are shattered when their parents die in a fire, and they lose the house and everything in it to their other uncle - a scheming Puritan. With Joan, their shy but resourceful housemaid, they set out to recover their lost inheritance, or find new lives amidst the stench and crowds of Shakespeare's London.

NOTE: This year I'm being a NanoRebel and finishing the second draft of my 2004 Nanonovel, in the hope of sending it out to publishers by the end of the year. The wordcount represents new writing done during November - the first draft was necessary to work out the plot, but appallingly badly written, so I'm not referring to it as I write the second draft.