One of my most favourite time periods in history is around the Great Fire of London, an event that forced us to reconsider all the premonitions we had about the utility of hygiene, sanitation and urban city planning.
This story follows the lives of four individuals, Geoffrey Van Chaucer, a small time playwright struggling to make a living in the harsh world. James Allan, a young parliamentarian moving up the high ranks of power. Gloria Scotia, a girl trying to make her way as an independent woman in this historically patriarchal society, and finally Gordon C. Junior, a change-maker and Oxford hot shot trying to make a change and trying to get across the point of the need of urban city planning to the ignorant and murky world of bureaucratic and monarchical mercenary; and how their lives inter-twine and turns upside down on the night of 2 September 1666.
So come along as we set ablaze this political, social, economical, and most importantly mental warfare web, as we descend into the city of London, The Fist Metropolitan City in The Modern World.
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Ablaze
Historical FictionA novel set against the backdrop of the Great Fire of London and how it affected our modern lives. Through the lives of four separate individuals we come to know how bureaucracy, politics, and dark societal practices that led to this grand phenomeno...
