*Michael Barrington’s new fiction, The Baron of Bengal Street, was published January 17th. “This is the fastest I have ever written, 97,000 words and I completed it in six months! I knew from the start that it just had to come out, rather like a dam bursting its banks. But this one felt so different. It’s essentially a historical novel about my roots and my family. It focuses on my larger-than-life maternal grandfather whom I never knew, but everyone who did says I am his double, at least in character! Writing about my mother before she was married, was particularly difficult and challenging, and just trying to find the right words and expressions stretched my skills to the limit. It recalls a special time and place and brought me and my four siblings closer as together we did research, shared our oral histories, and chatted for hours on end.”
*A short story by Michael Barrington, The Barn, will be published in the magazine Academy of the Heart on February 15th. (https://academyoftheheartandmind.com)
