I’d like to introduce you to the seventy-first interviewee in my ‘Meet the Author’ series. She is Jane Dougherty.

Hi, Jane! Welcome to Susan Finlay Writes blog site. Congratulations on your brand new publication! Can you tell us a bit about your background as a writer?

Hello Susan, and thank you for inviting me. I was brought up in a house full of books in a family with an almost religious respect for the written word. My mother was an artist, my father was a poet, and so was my Grandad Brennan, bilingual Irish and English. My Great-Grandma Brennan had read all of Dickens, Thackeray and Wilkie Collins even though she had no formal education beyond the age of twelve. Creative expression either through writing or the plastic arts was as natural as breathing in our house. I was just better with words than with images.

The Dark Citadel is…