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How an Idea Turned into a Novel

Setting a Novel in a Foreign Land

Season 1, Ep. 3

THE IMAGE OF LAURA, ULICK'S DAUGHTER and THE MOON IS RED IN APRIL


All three women were intrepid, travelling into foreign lands.. One fought to protect her image, one to find out who she was, the third to fight for the man she loved and to take him from her rival.  


Three novels set in the shadow of war and impending tragedy in three very different lands.



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