Researching ‘China Court’ by Rumer Godden

As many of you will know already, we have another title in the pipeline: a brand new edition of 'China Court' by the luminous writer Rumer Godden. This book is set in a country house near St Austell in Cornwall, and I have been researching the area and the history of the local china clay mines and the nearby grand old houses, as well as the inspirational surrounding countryside too. All of which led me to The White Road by Edmund de Waal - a history of porcelain.