My interview with Miranda Miller is posted on the Historical Novel Society website today. Miranda’s novel, The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd, has been reissued to coincide with an exhibition of Dadd’s paintings at the Royal Academy in London until 25 October 2026. His work, The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, is in the permanent collection of Tate Britain.

Dadd suffered from what today would be diagnosed as schizophrenia. He murdered his father and spent his life from the age of 26 incarcerated in Bethlem and then Broadmoor Hospitals. But he was fortunate in his physician at Bethlem, Charles Hood, who carried out reforms and encouraged Dadd to paint. Miranda talks about her research and writing the novel.

Further details are on her website.