![]() The Burning Chambers series is the novelist’s most ambitious project to date, one she anticipates will occupy her for the next six to eight years across three to four books. It is no surprise, therefore, that she comes to our interview from the set of a BBC documentary about a little-known writer named Helen Waddell: a literary superstar of her day, in 1930s Belfast, whose star has since dipped under the radar. In addition to her responsibilities as a carer for her father these past eight years, her time has been occupied as a tireless champion of other women writers, not least through the Women’s Prize for Fiction which she co-founded. ![]() She is excited for good reason: The Burning Chambers is her first outing as an author of pure historical fiction and marks her return to full-time writing after a decade-long hiatus. ![]() "I haven’t felt about a book the way I felt about Labyrinth-until now,” says Kate Mosse, brimming with anticipation ahead of her new historical saga coming from Mantle in May. ![]()
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