I got some editing done today on the later chapters of Searching for Julia, and hopefully I'll manage to go over the final two tomorrow so as to give myself a clear run at writing a synopsis this weekend. Have a non-spoilery paragraph from today's edits:

Lifting the papers out as a block, she took them over to the big desk in case she needed to spread them out. The first sheet was a letter to Lionel from an acquaintance who obviously considered himself a history buff, or whatever the Victorian equivalent might have been. He wrote that the evidence regarding Lionel's ancestor – which one, Linda wondered – was unproven at best, but pointed to Charles de Peverel having been acquainted at the very least with Sir John Hawkwood. Certainly de Peverel might have fought at Crécy. There was no reason to suppose that he hadn't conveyed the message that allowed the Black Prince a degree of success at Carcasonne, even though the English forces had never overthrown the citadel itself. Equally however, there was no evidence that he had ever been a part of that campaign. The whole story was a charming family legend, and if Lionel thought there was scope for a painting, or a series of paintings, depicting his ancestor then the enclosed might be of interest.