A compulsive writer for many years and inspired by several visits to the Indian Sub-Continent, Miles Lamdin lives quietly with his wife and daughter in the heart of Suffolk. Historical fiction provides him with opportunity to explore the life and times of people and places easily forgotten, people who lived beyond the conventional wisdom of the day and places now so altered as to be unrecognisable.
Set in the final years of Queen Victoria’s reign, at the beginning of the end of Empire in India, Flies to Wanton Boys records the life of Marian Chase as she defies convention to cross continents. Ignoring repeated advice that ‘this is no place for a woman’, she travels through India in searc...