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He's the Duke of Jervaulx...powerful, rich, intelligent and locked in a lunatic asylum. Publication: Avon Books 1992; re-issue May 27 2003, ISBN 0380-76132-7 Setting: England, Regency period (although the book is not a "Regency" in the genre sense) Mascot Animal: kittens and a ghostly wolfhound
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Laura's Comment: Hmmm, what to say about Flowers From the Storm? Sometimes the muse rocks. The odd tidbit of original inspiration for Flowers came from a great-aunt of mine. When I was fairly young--7 or 8?--she suffered a stroke and lost the ability to speak. My grandmother, her sister, brought her to live at home for the next ten years. She would come up behind us kids and grab our hair or our arm, pinch so hard that it hurt, and say "No, no, no, no!" I thought she was nuts. Forgive me, I was young and afraid of her. My grandmother always insisted that she could understand what was said to her, and stood by her to the end. . Many years later, many--out of nowhere, the thought came to me that my grandmother had been right. That my great-aunt had been trapped behind a wall. It was a stunning realization. I spent a fascinating period researching brain damage while writing Flowers from the Storm. Yes, Christian suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, for all those who wonder. A one-time bleeding in the brain caused by a malformed blood vessel. He never had another one, I promise. I deliberately made him left-handed because left-handers have an atypical layout of speech centers in the brain, and often recover better from aphasic injuries. One of the many strange and wonderful facts I stumbled across in my research on the brain: Did you know that sailors who spend long periods at sea, away from their wives, have a higher-than-normal percentage of left-handed children? Explain that one. Recognition: Finalist -- Golden Choice Award for Best Romance of 1992, Romance Writers of America" Laura's Fave Review of Flowers From the Storm: "f you want to read a book that comes as close to perfection as any historical romance, then pick up Flowers from the Storm. The story, the language, the emotional intensity: this book has everything. It's Laura Kinsale at the top of her game - or anybody else's, for that matter." All About Romance (I often wonder if I actually wrote that book or if it wrote itself while I was reading all those medical texts! LK) |
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