My novel Mother
of Wolves is set in an imaginary landscape along a great
river. It will not be a surprise to those of you who know that I live
in Gloucestershire that the river which had most influence on my
imagination was the Severn.
A turning point in the
book is when the heroine Lupa uses the river’s Autumn bore to her
advantage. It was inspired by a trip to watch the Severn bore one
very chilly morning. It proved impossible to photo properly, so this
must suffice. The force of the tide is unimaginable. It is able to
reverse a river’s natural flow and form so powerful a wave that it
crashes into a bank like this. As you can guess I went away inspired.
