Jane Stevenson - An Uneasy Feeling
Biographer, historian and novelist Jane Stevenson tells, for the first time, the story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting. Some names, dates and places have been changed.
Continuing our series of Essays in which five writers were commissioned to tell us something they have never told anyone before. Ranging from deeply personal experiences such as an account of sleep paralysis to the awkward truths and unspoken rules of power and race.
Today's true story from the biographer, historian and novelist Jane Stevenson steps beyond the safety of academic research to put her own life in the spotlight and recount an incident which prompted a very uneasy feeling and a startling conclusion.
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