Daughters of fire

Erskine, Barbara.

Book 2006

Historian and university lecturer Viv Lloyd Rees resigns from her university post when the BBC express interest in making a programme based on her book on Cartimandua, Celtic queen of the Brigantes and peer of Boudicca. Together with biographer Kate Kennedy and actress Pat Taylor, she forms "Daughters of Fire," a company dedicated to making dramas about women who have made history on their own terms. But the three women soon discover that tension...

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