Siobhan MacGowan's new novel is set during a time of great struggle for women, as she outlines here.
There is some personal history involved in The Trial of Lotta Rae as well as a wider one. Lotta Rae hails from Spitalfields, bordering London’s East End and City streets. Those streets she walks with her father, I walked with my own in the early 1970s when we lived...