In 2015 I was commissioned to write a non-linear story that was available through ‘artcodes’ – a long-term University of Nottingham project which allows artistic images to be used in a similar way to QR codes. The brief was to write a short narrative featuring literary characters from Nottingham’s past and present. I chose to write about the further adventures of Finestra, the princess who visited Nottingham in the late 1920s in Rose Fyleman’s A Princess Comes to Our Town. Finestra’s parents had arranged for her to marry a prince, but she refused to consider the proposition. Her fairy godmother decided she needed some time away, so sent her to Nottingham, where she met Rose Fyleman and had lots of madcap adventures. Eventually, of course, she marries the prince… so I wondered what might happen if Finestra and her new husband honeymooned in twenty-first century Nottingham…
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