As you live in Robin Hoods Yorkshire, what is the importance of place in the Forestwife trilogy?
TT: First of all I love writing about places that I know well as I find that I am never lost for description or detail, and I think the finished effect is usually more vivid. I also love studying local history. As I’ve lived in Sheffield for 28 years I feel pretty loyal to the school of thought that Robin Hood could have come from Hallamshire [the old name for the area which contains Sheffield and Loxley]. Where I live we have an old pub just round the corner that’s called The Robin Hood, I have discovered that the previous building that stood there in the 1600’s was called The Robin Hood and Little John. The road that leads away from it is Archer Rd, and close by Beachief Abbey has ancient woodland that some historians claim was once linked to Sherwood. One of the Abbots was the retired Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. None of this is proof of a Robin Hood connection, but it all feeds the imagination and when you are writing fiction, part of the joy of it is that you can put
