When I began drafting the concept of The Enchanted Cove, back in 2014, as soon as the character of the slightly eccentric artist aunt came to mind there was only one woman who could be my inspiration for her— Dame Laura Knight. Originally the profession of the children's Great Aunt simply provided me with a stylistic vehicle to allow the story to be set in Cornwall, at the Enchanted Cove; much as the evacuation of the Pevensie to stay with the old professor in C.S. Lewis' The