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The forgotten matriarch of the Wars of the Roses

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Is It the Author's Responsibility, Duty and Privilege to Tamper With the Truth?

The author talks about the process of writing historical fiction. Do you think accuracy should be put on a pedestal and held above all else? Or do you think the imagination should play more of a role in your plot? The question is whether it's the novelist's privilege to tamper with the truth, he says.

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