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Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.

But it really helped to see the scenes for myself.

At Lewes, we actually walked along the same path that Simon de Montfort and his men would have followed.

It was breathtaking to stand on the Downs, gazing out upon the same view that he would have seen ".