Prequel to the Howarth Family series, this is the new book by Judith Barrow

Judith joins us today to tell us a little more about her series and why she is releasing this sequel.

I didn’t really set out to write a trilogy. Pattern of Shadows was written because I found out that the first German POW in the UK was a disused cotton mill and, as I’ve said many times, it reminded me of when my mother was a winder in a cotton mill when I was a child. I wanted to write about the different atmosphere there would be between the time when I watched the women on the winding frames, the colours of the threads and material, the noise, the smells. And then how different it would be for those poor prisoners, away from home, defeated yet angry. It turned into a love story, a life story…