The light in the labyrinth: young adult novel and exegesis

Two components go hand in hand in this practice-led PhD - The Light in the Labyrinth, a young adult historical fiction novel, and its complementary exegesis that illuminates and contextualises what underpins the creation of this work. The Light in the Labyrinth constructs the fictional experience of my teenage female character, Kate Carey, the bastard daughter of Henry VIII and niece of Anne Boleyn, as she witnesses the last months of Anne Boleyn's life. My exegesis explicates the position of The Light in the Labyrinth in the young adult historical fiction genre. It also explicates my writing methodology of autoethnography, using the prism of Feminist Standpoint Epistemology, and how this methodology enables me to construct fiction through an imaginative and empathetic response to historical research.