Amphitheaters of Blood: PW Talks with Lindsey Davis

I know the Roman world, and I love writing about it. I moved the setting forward 12 years, so everybody who was in the previous series has developed in some way. And Flavia's a different voice because she's a woman and because she comes from Britain, seeing Rome through an outsider's eyes. Women in the Roman world couldn't do absolutely everything that men could do, although I believe they could do more than the textbooks tell you. She always has to be conscious of the fact that she's a woman, and she won't be welcomed as much as a man would be, and she might have to escape being groped or worse.