Petra Croft writes extensively in other genres and is the pen name for this piece of period literature. She has written contemporary fiction but this is her first period novel. She has an interest and knowledge of this circa of British life – the 1800s. The Preference was inspired by private family diaries. She lives and works in the U.K.
The sequel to The Preference is The Entitlement and follows the lives of the main characters – due out soon.
The Preference is about the unfolding of relationships amid complex desires. Although it is a novel of feelings and love, it is by no means an historical romance of the traditional type. Highly individual in its way, it follows the lives of two bright girls from privileged backgrounds from their te...