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Mistress of time travel: an interview with Caroline Lawrence
Best-selling children’s writer Caroline Lawrence tells Diana Bentley where she finds the inspiration for her pacy, impeccably crafted novels and why young and old alike continue to be fascinated by the ancient world
In 1954, the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to the god Mithras was uncovered in the City of London. Now wonderfully restored on its original site, the Mithraeum is incorporated into the basement of the European headquarters of Bloomberg, the international multi-media company, on Walbrook. Almost 50 years later the skeleton of a young girl, dating from the 3rd to 4th centuries AD, was found in a graveyard near the Tate Modern. Together, these two archaeological discoveries gave Caroline Lawrence the launch-pad for her latest gripping children’s novel, The Time Travel Diaries. Hurtling back through the centuries from contemporary London, its young hero Alex finds himself in Roman Londin
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