One of the pens behind the press
Cecily Grange
Historical fiction ยท The room where it happened, seen from the doorway
Cecily writes novels set in the past and told from the wrong side of the door: the housekeeper, the clerk, the second wife nobody thought to ask. The history is right down to the buttons, but the plot belongs to whoever was standing in the corridor. Her research notes run longer than her manuscripts and she regrets none of them.
3 books in print · 7 journal pieces
Books by Cecily Grange
Cecily Grange in the journal
- What a grand house tells you from the back stairs
- What the past sounded like, and why I kept getting it wrong
- A short list of the objects that give a scene its year
- Does it ever feel like trespassing, writing about the dead?
- The past had a smell, and I have to get it right
- Why the famous person is never the one telling my story
- The whole scene turned on a laundry list