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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Courses
Mistakes
Course
Heavy
Trip
Take
Indeed
Tremendous
Things
Everyday
Hardly
Think
Research
Granted
Thinking
Lead
Details
Life
Fiction
Particularly
Mistake
Historical

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