Sara SheridanI am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.
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In his autobiography, The Songlines , Bill Bryson says, "I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction." The author believes that history is a great story that can be told in a novel. He believes that there were many great stories that have been missed by historians because they didn't live long enough for their stories to be recorded.
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