Continuing to write within the world of the Seven Sisters is both a privilege and a slightly terrifying responsibility. After all, these characters belong entirely to my mother, and I am always conscious of the extraordinary relationship readers have built with them over the years. After penning Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt , I naturally assumed it was the end of my own journey with the series (certainly in terms of full novels). But Lucinda Riley’s brilliant characters continued …
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Saoirse is the story of a young American woman who flees to Ireland to escape the troubles she left behind in Michigan. Travelling under a stolen identity, she boards a …
I began my writing life with novels and plays and had success with three books, Priest, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion, and Bird in the Snow , and 6 plays …
When I began writing Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way , I returned to characters I had already spent time with. Claire and Tom first appeared in a …
Three years ago, I began an unusual project. I decided to write four novellas, each 40,000 words long, based around the traditional building blocks of the universe – water, earth, …
I wrote The Names because I’ve always been fascinated by the things that shape us as people. Our upbringing, our circumstances, the interests we’re steered toward, the people we cross …
What does love do to our imaginations? That was the question that preoccupied me for years as I was writing Open, Heaven. The other question was, what happens when we …
Garrett Carr on help he received from old fishermen when writing The Boy from the Sea . The Boy from the Sea unfolds over twenty years and is about a …
I had always wanted to set a novel in London but was daunted by those who have gone before me: writers born and bred there or who at least, spent …