One of the inspirations for the character of Verity Sparks was (truly) Victorian architecture. I’ve been tidying up my files and found these saved images I used when I was writing Verity into 1879 Melbourne, St Kilda and Mt Macedon. To my right is a St Kilda mansion – much like Alhambra in the novel. And on the left, underneath, is Government Cottage on Mt Macedon. And the sinister streets and lanes of inner city Melbourne are where Poppy lived.
Wow Alhambra is huge!!!!