THE INCORRIGIBLE LADY CATHERINE

Story Background

I’ll never forget the evening my husband and I rowed out on Ullswater, in England’s celebrated Lake District. As is typical in the British Isles, we enjoyed varied weather: bright sunshine, a brief shower, a rainbow and finally a soft drizzle. But most memorable were the views of the long, winding lake and the surrounding mountains, bluish-purple in the shadows and glowing with rusts and golds and greens in the ever-changing light. Earlier that day we had climbed Gowbarrow Fell, a wonderful viewpoint, and come back down through a ravine where a waterfall plunged through rocks and trees and ferns. Before our vacation was over, I knew that I had to write a story set in this wild and beautiful place.

A view of Ullswater from above, and Aira Force, the waterfall in Gowbarrow Park.

My characters attend an assembly in Keswick, on the north end of Derwentwater.

And Castlerigg Stone Circle, the most beautiful in all England - in my opinion, anyway!