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LADY OF LINCOLN and the Cutting Room Floor…
Lady of Lincoln, Nicola de la Haye, Battle of Lincoln, Baron's Revolt, Historical Fiction Rachel Elwiss Joyce Lady of Lincoln, Nicola de la Haye, Battle of Lincoln, Baron's Revolt, Historical Fiction Rachel Elwiss Joyce

LADY OF LINCOLN and the Cutting Room Floor…

I’m incredibly lucky that Sharon Bennett Connolly of ‘HISTORY… THE INTERESTING BITS’ has very kindly agreed to provide the forward for my upcoming, Chaucer Award long-listed, novel, LADY OF LINCOLN. As the non-fiction biographer of Nicola (Nicholaa) de la Haye, there couldn’t be a better (or nicer) person to introduce the book.

But that meant there was no reason to keep the original preface I had prepared.

Instead of losing it to the cutting room floor, I thought instead I would publish it here as a taster and introduction to who Nicola was. Please see below:

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