Deborah Harkness Time Quotations

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.