I really loved the character of Dame Evadne in my last book, ‘History Girls’.  She was so very aristocratic, yet not at all snobbish.  She loves nothing better than tinkering with old cars and motorbikes.  She collects them, does all her own maintenance. She even makes some of her own spare parts. She’s also is delighted whenever she has the chance to mend someone else’s car just for the fun of it. She says that when she was young, all the other girls were mad on horses, but she could never find the brakes!

Middle aged Evadne is totally dare-devil, riding powerful motorbikes across country at speed.  It’s something she gets from her ancestor, Elizabeth Prodnoze. She’s also dotty about her dog, Daphne, and this fabulously wealthy woman is often to be seen wearing old, worn-out skirts covered in oil stains and dog hair.  She’s a great believer in public service too, and runs various charities in the Saltbury area.

If you haven’t already met her yet, I hope you’ll have a look at the book.  It’s available in the US here, in the UK here, and on Kindle around the globe.

I loved Evadne so much, I plan to bring her back in a future book called ‘Sofia’, which I’m half way through writing at the moment.  It’s based some fifteen years after ‘History Girls’ and by now she’s quite an old lady.  But she also has a granddaughter, in her twenties: Lady Tara Jackerman-Prodnoze, who might have a few surprises for our little Monster, a now grown up (but still incorrigible) Sofie Fauld.