Alice Duncan

So important to Alice's work, but also to this book, Mary Ann and Moses.

Could you explain a little bit about their importance to Alice Duncan Kemp's work?

Yes, and I think we know who named Moses because you quoted from William Duncan saying he could find a Phidias and a Socrates and a Machiavelli wherever he walked.

Well, he found a Moses too.

That's a lovely way of putting what I've certainly aspired to do, although I don't know I would have found such beautiful words for it.

And the final fourth part of the book is, in a way, rehabilitating.

rehabilitating alice's reputation and reassuring the reader on many points that she's essentially drawing on her core truthful experience and how can i say that well that's what i try to show and part of the evidence comes from the country itself and it comes from the mythica story too Because one of the delights of the book for me, and really took me by surprise, was that I could tell a parallel life to Alice Duncan's, which is of a mythical man, Bill Gorringe.

He's very powerful.