Aubrey writes at the end of the twentieth century, interpreting a hitherto unknown ancient manuscript. Marina is the scribe who writes that manuscript at the end of the first century AD, from her exile on an Italian island.
Christine Whittemore has lived in Italy, the USA (27 years), and France. She is now based back in England, in her home county of Gloucestershire. Since returning to the UK in 2014, she has been invited to read and/or lead workshops at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival almost every year. She also read at the Wantage Literary Festival 2014. In 2017 she gave a talk on Gerard Manley Hopkins for the Poets on Poets series of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
