Carolyn McCrae
The Official Website of Carolyn McCrae, Shropshire Author
The Iniquities Trilogy
The Last Dance
Walking Alone
Runaways
In The Short Oxford Dictionary
the word
'Iniquity' has two meanings:
Immoral, unrighteous or harmful action or
conduct;
gross injustice, wickedness, sin.
and:
Inequality, inequity, unfairness
All of these are at the core of the
relationships
in the extended Donaldson family
whose history is
described in the Trilogy.
The Last Dance was
published
on 20th
April 2006.
Volume 2
Walking Alone followed
swiftly,
published on 1st April 2007.
The concluding volume,
Runaways,
was published on
27th June 2008.
All have been published by Troubador Publishing
Each book is narrated, for much of the time,
by a
major character.
The books span different, inter-locking, time frames
extending across the entire Twentieth Century.
But they all conclude in the same room,
on the same day in 1999
as the family gathers for the reading of a will.
Carolyn McCrae tells how The trilogy came about:
"Over the Easter weekend of 2003 I had a new
laptop to get to grips with. I tapped away in Word, not really having
any particular aim in mind, I was just playing with the new software.
Through the afternoon, as I explored tables and bullet points, I found a plot was
being outlined;
characters and their relationship to each other (both real and perceived)
were being mapped out, the beginnings and endings of the three books
were established.
All I had to do then was write the books...."
Despite working long hours at the 'day job',
and moving house twice,
Carolyn completed the three books
in less than five years.
