Historical Fiction and the Perils of Family Story

What happens when you set out to turn family history into historical fiction? For novelist Emma Darwin, who spent seven years trying to fictionalize her insanely eminent ancestors, the result was a creative disaster, an epic struggle with notions of historical truth that she has chronicled in a memoir, This is Not A Book About Charles Darwin. Listen now on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and Stitcher. Episode notes and more information can be found at http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/historical-fiction-emma-darwin/.