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What drew you to use the village of Eyam as a key setting?
I love to use some aspect of the Peak District's history in my books, and the story of the Eyam 'plague village' is one of the best known. It's a very atmospheric place in its own right, especially when you stand in the main street and look at the plaques outside the cottages with the names of the plague victims listed on them. One Eyam woman had to bury her entire family with her own hands during that period. Anyone with an ounce of imagination can't escape being affected by such stories.