Francesca de Tores (credit Andrew North)Francesca de Tores is a novelist, poet, and academic. Saltblood is her first historical novel. Writing as Francesca Haig, she is the author of four previous novels, published in more than twenty languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. She grew up in lutruwita/Tasmania and, after fifteen years in England, is now living in Naarm/Melbourne.
If you could go anywhere tomorrow, where would it be, and why?
Ithaka, the most perfect Greek island, to float in the turquoise water. At least Ithaka has literary links, so I could pretend that I was going there as a Homeric pilgrimage and not to drink wine in the sun.
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