Cat’s experience of force-feeding is based upon a report on its use in the British Medical Journal from August, 1912, and upon the first-hand account of her own experiences by Mary R. Richardson in Laugh a Defiance (1953).
Whilst some of the places and buildings around Thatcham described in The Unseen do exist, including The Bluecoat School, and whilst some of the information concerning these places is historically accurate, all storylines and characters linked to them are entirely fictional.
About the Author
KATHERINEWEBB was born in 1977 and grew up in ruralHampshire, England. She studied history at Durham University, has spent timeliving in London and Venice, and now lives in Berkshire, England. Having workedas a waitress, au pair, personal assistant, potter, bookbinder, libraryassistant, and formal housekeeper at a manor house, she now writesfull-time.