CLARE FLYNN

There are places that stay in your head long after you leave them. For me, Italy is one of those places. I first visited Italy when, aged seventeen, I went all over Europe for the first time, on a one-month InterRail holiday with friends after A Levels. Somehow I lived for a month on less than £50. I fell head over heels in love with the country and that has never left me. I was fortunate enough to live in Milan in the 1990s, working, learning the language, and getting to kno

I'm delighted to welcome the talented Jane Davis back to my blog today to mark the release of her latest novel, The Temple of the Muses, which is the sequel to The Bookseller's Wife, which I loved. Jane is going to tell us some of the fascinating background to the new book, which I look forward to reading.